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Hanne Strager

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I am a biologist and science writer - and a passionate reader. After graduating from the Aarhus University, Denmark, I studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz, as a Fulbright Scholar.

Many years ago I cofounded a whale center in northern Norway and I remain involved in cetacean research and conservation. I have served as the director of exhibitions at the Natural History Museum of Denmark and has twenty years’ experience making science and natural history accessible to the general public.

I have been awarded the Copenhagen University Natural Sciences Faculty’s prize for science communication.

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	A Modest Genius: The story of Darwin's Life and how his ideas changed everything by Hanne Strager (Goodreads Author), Sarah Darwin (Foreword) 4.15 avg rating — 458 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of Orcas by Hanne Strager (Goodreads Author), Paul Nicklen (Foreword/Photographer) 4.45 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Skyggezone: En biografi om Inge Lehmann, kvinden, der opdagede Jordens inderste kerne 3.94 avg rating — 53 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Som at tilstå et mord 4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dodo, the Blue Whale and the Lonely Spider: Stories of Discovery, Obsession and Occasional Disaster 3.68 avg rating — 34 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If I Am Right, and I Know I Am: Inge Lehmann, the Woman Who Discovered Earth’s Innermost Secret 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	If I Am Right, and I Know I Am: Inge Lehmann, the Woman Who Discovered Earth’s Innermost Secret 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wild Orcas: A Deep Dive into the World of Killer Whales by Hanne Strager (Goodreads Author), Catherine DeNardo 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2026	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	MUSEER - Borgere og Bæredygtige Løsninger by Jacob Thorek Jensen (Editor and Contributor), Ida Brændholt Lundgaard (Editor and Contributor), Lene Floris (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Hanne and 4 other people liked Christie's review of The Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of Orcas: "Hanne Strager is an amazingly talented storyteller. This book takes you around the world sharing accounts of different peoples and cultures relationships with orcas. I love non-fiction books that are written in such an engaging way that they wrap you" Read more of this review »
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Hanne and 5 other people liked ...'s review of The Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of Orcas: "An engrossing read about killer whales and human relationship with them in Norway, Iceland, Australia, Russia, Greenland, and the Pacific Northwest. Some of these populations aren't written about often, so I was thrilled to learn a bit more about them" Read more of this review »
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“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by”
― Hanne Strager, A Modest Genius: The Story of Darwin's Life and How His Ideas Changed Everything

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“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved”.5”
― Hanne Strager, A Modest Genius: The Story of Darwin's Life and How His Ideas Changed Everything

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“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science”.”
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