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A Whale for the Killing

5 May 2012

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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Authors

Farley Mowat

Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
599.5
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
23
General Note
Originally published in 1972"--T.p. verso Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
Geographic Area Code
n-cn-nf
ISBN
9781771000291 9781771000284
LCCN
QL737.C4
LCCN Item number
M6 2012eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
CaOONL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (241 p.)
Publisher or Distributor Number
CaOOCEL
Rights
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)slc00228740 (OCoLC)791160831 (CaOOCEL)443347
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Transcribing agency
CaOONL

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