In thousand mile song musician and philosopher david rothenberg uses the enigma of whale sounds to explore whether we can truly understand nonhuman minds interviewing scholars around the world as they attempt to decipher underwater music rothenberg tells the story of scientists and artists confronting an unknown as vast as the ocean. Thoughtful richly detailed and deeply entertaining thousand mile song uses the enigma of whale sounds to open up whales underwater world of sonic mystery whale song is an astonishing world of sound whose existence no one suspected before the 1960s. In thousand mile song musician and philosopher david rothenberg uses the enigma of whale sounds to explore whether we can truly understand nonhuman minds interviewing scholars around the world as they attempt to decipher underwater music rothenberg tells the story of scientists and artists confronting an unknown as vast as the ocean. Thousand mile song whale music in a sea of sound by david rothenberg 298pp basic books gbp1599 sailors have long known that whales make strange musical noises