"As long as the old mother stands, the circle holds."

For fans of Life of Pi, the sweeping natural world of Planet Earth, and deeply emotional ecological fiction comes a masterpiece of biological wonder and raw maternal love.

The First Breath of the Twin Worlds takes readers on a dual journey across the extreme frontiers of our planet:

•In the Sapphire Twilight: Ocea, a scarred blue whale, starves herself from the inside out, melting her own protective blubber mantle into fifty-percent fat milk to armor her daughter against an ice-cold sea.
•In the Scorched Desert: Ela, a weathered elephant matriarch, navigates a historical, killing drought, defending her lineage from lines of high-voltage wire and human poachers.

Observed from afar by weary human scientists who can only marvel at the mathematical precision of nature's inner compass, these two parallel lineages march—and swim—through loss, tragedy, and the eventual transference of ancient wisdom to the next generation.

Step into a story where biology meets soul, and discover the invisible pillars holding up the earth and the sea.