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    Beyond the grave

    Oct 30, 2023 2 minutes

    THE TWO-HEADED WHALE: Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy of Whaling in the Antarctic

    by Sandy Winterbottom

    (Greystone, $42.99)

    In 2016, Sandy Winterbottom stood in front of a teenager’s grave on the freezing island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic, 1400km east of the Falkland Islands. According to the slate label on his small white

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