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No Man's River Reader Comments on Farley Mowat's Books Sean Craft, Box 1090, Bragg Creek, AB TOL OKO, Jun 2001ĭear Farley Mowat, I am a fourteen and two months and I go to Springbank community high. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship RV Farley Mowat wasįarley Mowat's 38 books have been published in 24 languages and have sold more than 14 millionĬopies throughout the world. Of the Norse saga men and, like them, my chief concern is with the tales of men, and otherĪnimals, living under conditions of natural adversity." Mowat was made an Officer of the Mowat has said of himself, "I am a Northern Man. Mowat documented the reasons why he was refusedĮntry to the United States in his 1985 book, My Discovery of America. customs officials in Torontoĭenied Mowat entry to the United States. In 1985, as a part of the promotional tour for this book, MowatĪccepted an invitation to speak in California. Mowat published a denunciation of "the destruction of animal life in the north Atlantic" entitled Sea In 1963, Mowat wrote an account of his experiences in the CanadianĪrctic with Arctic wolves entitled Never Cry Wolf. Government's Inuit policy: the government began shipping meat and dry goods to a people they Of the Deer made Mowat a literary celebrity and contributed to a shift in the Canadian Of Keewatin District in the Northwest Territories. Of the Deer, published in 1952, described the plight of the Ihalmiut, inland Eskimos In 1949 after spending two years in the Arctic. War II Mowat served in the army, entering as a private and emerging with the rank of captain.įollowing his discharge, Mowat renewed his interest in the Canadian Arctic, an area he hadįirst visited as a young man with an ornithologist uncle. Grew up in Belleville, Trenton, Windsor, Saskatoon, Toronto and Richmond Hill as his librarianįather moved a household that included a miniature menagerie around the country. Born in Belleville, Ontario in 1921, Mowat North with humor, understanding and compassion. “A swift kick to any remaining complacency about the plight of our oceans” ( National Geographic Adventure), The Whale Warriors is “two parts high seas swashbuckle and one part inconvenient truth” ( Surfer).From the 1981 film Ten Million Books: An Introduction to Farley Mowatįor many years, Farley Mowat has written of the lands, seas and peoples of the Far 
The exploitation of endangered whales is emblematic of an over-exploitation of the seas that is now entering its desperate denouement with our own survival in the balance. Japan threatens to send down defense aircraft and warships, Australia appeals for calm, New Zealand dispatches military surveillance aircraft, the US Office of Naval Intelligence issues a piracy warning, and international media begin to track the developing whale war.Īs Heller describes the slow, rusting, old Norwegian trawler Farley Mowat and the fast, new six ship whaling fleet of the Japanese, we also learn about the crisis of our oceans, which are on the verge of total ecosystem collapse. But while the ships are far from rescue, the world is watching. Heller recreates a nail-biting showdown when Captain Watson and his crew attempt to deliberately ram an enormous Japanese whaling ship, trying to tear open its hull with a steel blade called a “Can Opener.” In thirty-five-foot seas, a deadly game of Antarctic chicken begins.
The little ship is black, flies under a jolly roger, and carries members of the Sea Shepherd Society, a radical environmental group who are willing to die to stop illegal whale hunting. For two months in 2005, journalist Peter Heller was aboard the Farley Mowat as it stalked its prey-a Japanese whaling fleet-through the storms and ice of Antarctica. The Whale Warriors is an adventure story set in the far reaches of the globe. Now with a new afterword by the author, the tenth-anniversary edition of Peter Heller’s “swashbuckling adventure” ( Publishers Weekly) takes us on a hair-raising journey aboard a whale saving pirate ship with a vigilante crew whose mission is to stop illegal Japanese whaling in the stormy seas of Antarctica.
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