![]() The book takes us through happenings in a whale’s life at sea, their relationship to each other, their love, friendships, rivalries, their relationship to humans and the war they both have waged against each other for centuries. We also learn more about her Captain and the two other apprentices working in the crew, Treasure and Willem. We learn subsequently how Bathsheba got into hunting and how her family believed in prophecy. ![]() Captain Alexandra runs the boat and she is an experienced campaigner. Before long, we learn that the narrator is a whale, she is an apprentice in a boat with an all-female hunting crew, and they hunt boats sailed by humans. ‘ Call me Bathsheba‘, the narrator says in the first words in the book. ![]() I started reading it yesterday and finished reading it today. I discovered ‘ And the Ocean was our Sky‘, when I was browsing in the bookshop last week, and I thought I will gift it to myself as a Christmas present. ![]()
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