deeply obnoxiously overwritten prose and a lot of pointless tangents, but somewhere beneath that is some interesting information about whales and the environment

This is a simultaneously soothing and uncomfortable read. While anything to do with whales has a necessary slowness to it seemingly born of their long lifespans and generally large-scale lives, this wandering narrative is punctuated with reminders of how we have negatively affected the environment and the creatures forced to share it with us.