Ocean Book of the Month
Each month, The Ocean Project highlights a book focused on our blue planet or environmental sustainability. Books for all age groups are be covered, non-fiction and fiction, prose and poetry.
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The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals
by Peter Heller
In "The Whale Warriors," award-winning adventure writer Peter Heller invites us to join him on his journey aboard the eco-pirate ship the Farley Mowat. Captaining the ship is none other than Paul Watson, founder of Greenpeace, who in 1977 started his current group, Sea Shepherd, because he “wanted to take intervening action to enforce international laws." Heller follows Watson and his 44-person crew on their voyage to find the Japanese whaling fleet en route to the Antarctic and halt its illegal whaling.
Heller's energetic descriptions and brave prose take us on a journey hard to imagine, a journey where, according to one crew member, "any day saving a whale is a good day to die." For two months, Heller follows Watson and crew on their journey to stop or sink the Japanese whaling ships that are hunting endangered whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, in violation of several international laws. This activity is not without precedent: Watson and crew have sunk eight ships for similar offenses.
According to Watson and his crew their mission is about more than just the fate of the whales, it is also about a larger crisis in our ocean and on our planet. The way Watson sees it if they can't protect the whales “then the rest of the planet doesn't stand a chance."
Backed with vivid descriptions of one of the wildest and most forbidding places on earth and the majesty of the world's largest animals, the author transports us to a world far different than the one most of us experience. Along the way, Heller paints a portrait of Watson as a man who inspires us to drop the normality of our everyday routine and follow his example of action in the name of nature.
This book will help motivate and inspire readers to personal action on behalf of whales and our world’s ocean.
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