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Books : A Whale for the KillingIn association with Amazon.comby: Farley Mowat  List Price: $2.95 Price: $1.97 You Save: $0.98 (33%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 333 EAN: 9780140037289 ISBN: 0140037284 Label: Viking/Penguin Manufacturer: Viking/Penguin Publication Date: October 30, 1973 Publisher: Viking/Penguin Studio: Viking/Penguin Sales Rank: 1611396 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A PLEA TO STOP THE SLAUGHTER NOW... When an 80-ton Fin Whale became trapped in a Newfoundland lagoon, conservationist Farley 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. They blasted the whale with rifle fire and hacked open her back with a motorboat propeller. Mowat appealed desperately to the police, to marine biologists, finally to the Canadian press. But it was too late. Ravaged by an infection resulting from her massive wounds, the whale died. World-renowned for his passionate tales of survival, Farley Mowat wrote his new book to symbolize the plight of all whales preyed on by man for commercial profit. A Whale for the Killing is an urgent, eloquent plea to stop the massacre now...before the entire species is doomed to extinction. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A moving story well-toldNewfoundland is the easternmost outpost of Canada in the North Atlantic, and in 1962, Farley Mowat, already a well known writer, moved to the town of Burgeo on its desolate south coast. The area was remote, reachable only by the weekly steamer and an occasional chartered seaplane. Mowat loved it there, and in the first fifty pages says much about the beauty of the place and the friendly inhabitants. The local economy was based on fishing, with a recently opened fish-freezing plant. ... Read More Rating:  - A GREAT BOOKThis is a profoundly moving and important book, and I cannot recommend it too highly. Immensely readable and full of fascinating insights into the other "nations" with which we humans share this planet, it is also one of the very few books I have ever read which changed the direction of my life. For anyone who wants to truly understand this world in which we find ourselves this is one of the "must read" books. Rating: - A true story with unexpectedly clear symbolism"A Whale for the Killing" chronicles the unlikely and you might also say, unseemly doings in a small Newfoundland outport in the 1960s. In what soon proved to be a run of bad luck, one of the largest of the sea mammals, a Fin whale, found itself trapped in a huge body of water near the town of Burgeo. It had managed to just slide over a rocky underwater escarpment and get into the bay, but try as it might it could not get out again. Farley Mowat's part in the story is rather extraordinary ... Read More Rating: - A painful story that must be told.This Farley Mowat book, written in the early 1970s, is one that grabs ahold of you. I could not set it down. It's a true story of a trapped whale off the Newfoundland coast and what happens because of the stupidity of humans. Farley Mowat uses the story to tell of the plight of all whales in human hands. Though much has changed since this was written, whales are still threatened and the story will still disturb you. A touching, honest, beatifully written true story. This is book that you ... Read More Rating: - A novel only Farley Mowat could writeFarley Mowat has often been criticised for his "embellishments", but while his facts may be suspect his motives are sincere. 'A Whale For the Killing' is a gut-wrenching look at the way we treat our oceans and our world in general. Mowat, always a pleasure to read, made me feel both angry and ashamed in this wonderful book. Browse for similar items by category:
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