Tom Mustill
I was first a biologist, working with endangered species. Then I switched and spent fifteen years making nature documentaries with people like Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough. Then a humpback whale breached onto me when I was kayaking, this led to a life-changing adventure culminating in my becoming involved in efforts to use AI to translate the communications of whales! I wrote about this for my first book. My great passion was always reading and in becoming a writer I get to go deeper and more playfully into my favorite parts of filmmaking – following heroic and fascinating people on their adventures, reading hundreds of complicated scientific papers, and finding ways to connect these. I am married to Annie and live in London with her and our two young daughters, Stella and Astrid.
1 Books Written
What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty ‑ ton humpback whale breached onto his kayak —asks this question in his thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication.A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 “When a whale is in the water, it is like an you only see a fraction of it and have