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ORCA: THE WHALE CALLED KILLER: 25 years in Print

Erich Hoyt celebrates by releasing 25 copies of his first book
by OrcaMan
September 11, 2006
Twenty-five years ago this month, my book Orca: The Whale Called Killer was published by Dutton in New York. A lot has happened in that time, including my discovery of BookCrossing.

This book, which tells the story of seven summers spent living with killer whales or orcas in the wild off the west coast of Canada, was widely and well reviewed in the US, UK, Canada and Japan. The US book trade bible, Publishers Weekly, called it a “superb story of adventure….one of the best nature books of the year.” Separate editions were published in hardcover and paperback. The main Firefly paperback edition has gone through various printings and has remained in print ever since.

To mark twenty-five years that Orca: The Whale Called Killer has been in print, I will be registering and releasing 25 copies of my book for others, including potential new BookCrossers, to find. During a ten day period in September, I will leave copies of my books on trains, buses, in places like Starbucks, the Scottish Seabird Centre, Princes Street Gardens (Edinburgh) and even two books will be placed on the Queen Mary (leaving Southampton for New York) in early September. But most of them will be left in Scotland, in and around Edinburgh. Good hunting to all!



Erich Hoyt is a relatively new BookCrosser. He has written 14 more books, travelled and worked in 40 countries, moved from Vancouver to Montreal, Canada, then to Cambridge, Massachusetts and finally to Edinburgh, Scotland, where he is Senior Research Fellow with the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society and Co-Director of the Far East Russia Orca Project. To find out more, see http://www.ErichHoyt.com.

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