Seal Wars: Twenty-five Years on the Front Lines with the Harp Seals
Who can forget the sight of snow white harp seal pups with their liquid dark eyes? And who can forget the sealers, clubbing them to death to provide the raw materials for the legal trade in sealskin coats? Watson, the Canadian leader of the Greenpeace campaign to save the seal pups, tells his life story. Feeling an affinity for animals at an early age, his compassion for them led to his engaging in campaigns to fight for them. His rough and ready boyhood, tempered by years at sea on freighters, helped to bring about his final incarnation as an eco-warrior practicing guerrilla conservation. The book opens with a bang as the author, his team, and actor Martin Sheen (who wrote the foreword) are holed up in a hotel trying to survive an attack by a drunken mob of sealers. In lively prose, the author then describes his many campaigns aboard various ships. Although his group also conducted media campaigns and political debates, the meat of this exciting story is Watson's confrontations on the ice.Nancy BentCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved