Blood and Guts: Dispatches from the Whale Wars

Author: Sam Vincent
Publisher: Black Inc.
Category: Popular Culture, Fisheries & Related Industries, Environmentalist, Conservationist & Green Organizations, Conservation Of The Environment, Endangered Species & Extinction Of Species, Aquaculture & Fish-farming: Practice & Techniques
Book Format: Paperback

 

Confrontations between Japanese whalers and Sea Shepherd activists make for exciting news reports during the Australian summer. But the sensational headlines and dramatic footage - eco warriors pitted against the might of the Japanese state - fail to scratch the surface of the complex forces that drive each side's actions. In Blood and Guts, Sam Vincent provides an objective eyewitness account of the whale wars. What motivates Sea Shepherd to spend vast sums of money and risk the lives of its activists to pursue a relatively low-impact hunt in some of the most isolated and perilous waters on Earth? Why does a rich nation like Japan doggedly continue a practice it only started to feed its starving population in the wake of World War II? While the International Court of Justice has recently upheld Australia's claim that Japan must stop its 'research' whaling in the Southern Ocean, Japan is already planning to resume its whale hunt in 2015. Australia might have won the battle, but the whale wars seem set to continue. Blood and Guts is a vivid and definitive work of reportage that gets to the heart of this divisive issue.

 

About Sam Vincent

Sam Vincent is a freelance travel writer and investigative journalist. He is a regular contributor to the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age and has a degree in international relations from the Australian National University. He has been published in the Monthly and the Griffith Review. When not travelling, he works as a researcher and editor at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.

 

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SKU BK-9781863956826
Barcode # 9781863956826
Brand Black Inc.
Artist / Author Sam Vincent
Shipping Weight 0.4200kg
Shipping Width 0.156m
Shipping Height 0.015m
Shipping Length 0.234m
Assembled Length 23.400m
Assembled Height 1.500m
Assembled Width 15.600m
Type Paperback

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