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A whale for the killing
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A whale for the killing

Autor: Farley Mowat
Editorial: Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, ©2005.
Edición/Formato: Libro : Inglés (eng) : 1st edVer todas las ediciones y todos los formatos
Resumen:
A compelling true story of the author's desperate attempts to save an eighty-ton fin whale trapped in a Newfoundland lagoon. As he tries to persuade wildlife authorities and the Canadian press to help him in his quest, he must fend off curious and uncaring locals, who want to harvest the helpless whale for sport. As it tells one of Mowat's most personal and moving stories, this book becomes an impassioned plea to  Leer más
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Tipo de documento: Libro/Texto
Todos autores / colaboradores: Farley Mowat
ISBN: 0811731863 9780811731867
Número OCLC: 60651084
Notas: [Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1972].
Descripción: x, 217 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Responsabilidad: Farley Mowat.

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A compelling true story of the author's desperate attempts to save an eighty-ton fin whale trapped in a Newfoundland lagoon. As he tries to persuade wildlife authorities and the Canadian press to help him in his quest, he must fend off curious and uncaring locals, who want to harvest the helpless whale for sport. As it tells one of Mowat's most personal and moving stories, this book becomes an impassioned plea to save a species that seems doomed to extinction. A classic nature book now back in print. In the 1960s, Farley Mowat was living in the tiny fishing community of Burgeo on the southwest coast of Newfoundland. When an 80-ton fin whale became trapped in a nearby saltwater lagoon, Mowat rejoiced: here was the first chance to study at close range one of the most magnificent animals in creation. Some local villagers thought otherwise, blasting the whale with rifle fire and hacking open her back with a motorboat propeller. Mowat appealed desperately to the authorities, but it was too late-ravaged by an infection resulting from her massive wounds, the whale died. A plea for the end of commercial hunting of the whale, this moving account blends all the tension of the life-and-death struggle for one animal's survival with the drama of man's wanton destruction of life-bearing creatures and the environment itself.

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