The Whale Warriors
The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals
By Peter Heller
2007
First Published
4.00
Average Rating
312
Number of Pages
A dramatic rendering of life aboard a whale-saving pirate ship traces the efforts of a vigilante crew to stop illegal Japanese whaling in the Antarctica seas, in an account that profiles the Sea Shepherd Society of radical environmentalists and the charismatic captain Paul Watson. 35,000 first printing.
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4.00
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Author
Peter Heller
Author · 13 books
There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Peter Heller holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in both fiction and poetry. An award-winning adventure writer and longtime contributor to NPR, Heller is a contributing editor at Outside magazine, Men’s Journal, and National Geographic Adventure, and a regular contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek. He is also the author of several nonfiction books, including Kook, The Whale Warriors, and Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet’s Tsangpo River. He lives in Denver, Colorado.
