Blood and Guts: Dispatches from the Whale Wars
by Sam Vincent
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"I pull on my balaclava and step onto the bridge wing. It's loud outside: I can hear the rumbles of nine vessels' engines and the hiss of ten water cannons ... Suddenly the bridge is full of refugees from the upper deck. They are blocking my view out the back windows, but their faces - afraid, excited, awestruck - illustrate the looming presence of the Nisshin. I bend my knees and grip the bench, ready for the crunch."In Blood and Guts, Sam Vincent plunges into the whale wars.Vincent sets show more sail with Sea Shepherd, led by the charismatic and abrasive Paul Watson. He attends the recent case at the I show lessTags
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Sam Vincent is the author of Blood and Guts: Dispatches from the Whale Wars, which made the Waverly Library Award 2015 shortlist. The Waverley Library Award was established in 2002 to recognise the role of research in fiction and nonfiction. This same title also made the ACT Book of the Year 2015 shortlist. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Important places
- Taiji, Wakayama, Japan
- Important events
- Taiji Whaling Festival
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- Nonfiction, Economics, Science & Nature, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 338.372950952 — Society, Government, and Culture Economics Production Water products; Fish, ice, etc. Products Products of fishing, whaling, hunting, trapping
- LCC
- SH381 .V56 — Agriculture Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling Fisheries Whaling
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- English
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