Monday, August 2, 2010

A Whale for the Killing

Famed Canadian author Farley Mowat's account of his (doomed) efforts to save a trapped fin whale on the south coast of Newfoundland. According to the forward, Mowat's masterful telling of this terrible story inspired Greenpeace to refocus its efforts on saving whales in the early 1970s.

A Whale for the Killing
by Farley Mowat
Find it in the Library at call number QL795 .W5M66 2005

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