Erich Hoyt Books, by category



Narrative nonfiction (author)


Orca: The Whale Called Killer (Five editions: Dutton, New York; Hale, London; Firefly, Toronto; Dobutsu Sha, Tokyo)


The Earth Dwellers (Six editions: Simon & Schuster, New York; Touchstone, New York; Kagaku Asahi, Tokyo; Hainan, China; Mainstream, UK)



Large format illustrated narrative nonfiction (author)


Seasons of the Whale (Seven editions: Chelsea Green, Nimbus, Mainstream, Marcel Broquet, HSI, WDCS)


Creatures of the Deep (Firefly, Toronto, New York)



Large format illustrated nonfiction (with co-authors as noted)


Whales, Dolphins & Porpoises (with Mark Carwardine, Ewan Fordyce and Peter Gill) (Eighteen editions: Harper-Collins, London;Time-Life/Discovery Channel, New York; Fog City Press, San Francisco; Könemann, Germany; many others)


Sharks & Whales (with Leighton Taylor and Mark Carwardine)  (Fog City Press, San Francisco)



Anthologies (as editor and co-author)


Insect Lives (with Ted Schultz) (Four editions: Wiley, New York; Harvard University Press, Cambridge; Mainstream, UK)



Academic books (with co-authors as noted)


Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises (Earthscan, London)


The Performing Orca (WDCS)


Conserving the Wild Relatives of Crops (Six editions: Addison-Wesley, Boston, México DF, and others)


The Killer Whales of Eastern Kamchatka (with Alexander Burdin, Olga Filatova and Hal Sato) (Alaska SeaLife Centre, USA)


Marine Mammals of Russia (with Alexander Burdin and Olga Filatova) (Kirov, Russia)



Children’s nonfiction


Extinction A-Z (Enslow, NJ)


Meeting the Whales (Camden House, Firefly, Toronto, New York)


Riding with the Dolphins (Camden House, Firefly, Toronto, New York)


Whale Rescue (Firefly, Toronto, New York)



Guide books (as editor and author)


The Whale Watcher’s Handbook (Six editions: Doubleday, New York; Penguin, Toronto, London; Stein, Germany)


The Whales of Canada (Camden House, Firefly, Toronto, New York)



Chapters in books


Down to Earth (Michael Rosen, Editor; Harcourt Brace, San Diego, New York)

Ecotourism: Focus on Wildlife and Local Communities (Icfai University Press, Hyderabad, India)

Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (Perrin et al, editors, Academic Press, San Diego)

Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, 2nd edition (Perrin et al, editors, Academic Press, San Diego) — 2 articles

Encyclopedia of the Biosphere: A Guide to the World's Ecosystems (Gale + Spanish and Catalan editions) — 5 sections

Political Life in Canada (Prentice-Hall, Toronto)


Incomplete list…


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