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Harpoon : into the heart of whaling / Andrew Darby.
- Title
- Harpoon : into the heart of whaling / Andrew Darby.
- Author
- Darby, Andrew
- Publication
- Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, c2008.
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- Description
- xix, 300 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- To many, the whale is a majestic mammal, the 'mind in the ocean'. What were once whaling towns have become homes to hordes of devoted whale watchers, and whaling, for the most part, was thought to have been vanquished. It was just a matter of waiting for those few misguided nations still whaling to come to their senses. That never happened. Instead, the whalers came back. In 1987, the first full year after the worldwide moratorium on commercial whaling was agreed to, 100 whales were killed on the end of grenade-tipped harpoons. In 2005, the figure was around 2,500. Harpoon reveals the political machinations and manipulation at the highest levels that have allowed some countries, particularly Japan, to continue hunting whales against the wishes of the world, with the IWC powerless to stop the slaughter.
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- Note
- Originally published: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2007.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-291) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue : Fin -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Right -- Bones of the past -- Counting absence -- pt. 2. Blue -- To the brink -- Making margarine -- Heroic liars -- Whaling for pygmies -- pt. 3. Sperm -- Moby's click -- Waking the village -- Hearts and minds -- pt. 4. Minke -- A dozen dead oceans -- Brave new science -- Being Japanese -- Keiko goes home -- pt. 5. Humpback -- Explosion and its meaning -- Fishing for countries -- Normality -- Voyages -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 9780306816291
- 0306816296
- OCLC
- 176894848
- SCSB-10122362
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library