The World's Last Whale: A Tragedy of Climate Change

By Lisse Kirk

"Once I dove in sparkling water, clear and cold, salt but sweet. I danced in beams of sunlight and my songs raced before me into the unknowable depths of the sea."

This is the heartbreakingly beautiful story of the world's last whale as she makes one final journey.

The oceans are clogged with plastic, the air is polluted, species are dying off, and life is no longer sustainable for a creature of her size. Human negligence has resulted in the extinction of many species, her own included. She remembers and misses them all, carrying on their songs as best she can, painfully aware she is all that remains of their legacy.

After encountering human bodies left floating in a garbage gyre, bodies that remind her of the friends she has lost, she sets out on a journey north. Angry and hurt, incredibly lonely, the whale finds herself driven to travel, to try and find acceptance and understanding, to come to terms with being the end of an entire marine world. On the way, she discovers unexpected and sometimes daunting new truths and begins to see how the world is changing, how nature is desperately trying to adapt.

Can she ever forgive what has been done to the seas? Can she learn to let go of the hate in her heart? Can she face the inevitable without fear?

The World's Last Whale is a story of grief and love and the limitless compassion found in the most unexpected places.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09CCC7PS6
• ISBN13: 9798534114072
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"