Books published by publisher john day company, 1968

Illustrated with photographs, maps and charts. The planet Earth is a spaceship, a small self contained system with limited resources and the Earth's people are passengers on that spaceship. What would happen if the provisions ran low? The water supply became polluted? Mutinies and fighting started to break out? The energy supply was being depleted? You had better start thinking about what you would do because you are on that spaceship! Isaac Asimov probes vitally important questions about our population problems and what we must start to do to bring about solutions.

Whale adventure is an adventure story that is based in a old-type whaler, a square-rigger (whatever that means) in which whales are hunted without the advantages of modern weaponry. fairly elemental battle between the largest creature and the most cruel one. The adventure includes being stranded on a harpooned whale's back and the necessity of steering it to reach your ship, a nice ship-wrecked sequence without the glamour and also a sojourn on the modern whalers which can process 48 whales every day. notwithstanding all his animal stuff, price, i think was an animal lover, in most his books animals have a positive role to play, the villians are mostly human in form, and his understanding of animal behaviour and research is impeccable. Read this book, with no pre-conceived notions and hopefully this will lead you and your kids into a world of pure reading pleasure, adventure, action, and knowledge gained as a by-product