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Seal Wars: Twenty-Five Years on the Front Lines With the Harp Sealsby Watson, Paul
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Key Porter Books, 2002 AS-NEW/FINE First Edition, 1st Printing HCDJ. Crisp and clean, square and solid, no wear, no markings of any kind. 6.25" x 9.25", 248 pages, illustrated, index. - Captain Paul Watson has rammed fishing trawlers, smashed whaling ships, sailed boldly into Soviet waters, and stood bravely on an ice floe between a baby harp seal and an oncoming seal boat. In this daring and sprawling memoir, the captain of the Sea Shepherd recounts his life on the front lines in the war to stop the slaughter of the Canadian harp seal. "Seal Wars" opens with an incident in 1995 when, holed up in a hotel with actor Martin Sheen in the Magdalen Islands and facing an angry mob of sealers who had stormed the hotel, Watson had to be rescued by police and airlifted to safety. Watson recounts the childhood experiences that shaped his adult consciousness and environmental ethic. He records a history of the seal hunt from its beginnings -- including the tragedies, brutalities, and government mismanagement and obfuscations -- up to the campaigns he led. Starting in 1976 with a Greenpeace crew off Labrador, Paul Watson has braved numerous forays onto the ice floes, many with such celebrities as Brigitte Bardot, Farley Mowat, Martin Sheen, and Pierce Brosnan. He has spent his time in prison, debated politicians, and put his life on the line. In a passionate defence of environmental responsibility, this book takes you through the highs and lows, the defeats and successes of Watson's untiring devotion to his cause.. Hard Cover.
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