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Last Whale, eBook

by Chris Pash

About the Book

It’s the end of the seventies and one young reporter is bearing witness to the final days of Australia’s whaling industry.

Thirty years after the last whale was captured and slaughtered in Australia, Chris Pash, tells the very human story of the characters and events that brought whaling to an end. This fair and balanced account portrays the raw adventure of going to sea, the perils of being a whaler and the ‘crazy, but somehow magical’ commitment that leads activists to throw themselves into the path of an explosive harpoon.

Accompanied by a wonderful photographic record of the time, this is the action-packed history of a town reliant on whaling dollars pitted against a determined band of protesters.

Categories
eBooks, Current Affairs, Culture & Social History
Publication Year
2008
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Fremantle Press
ISBN13
9781921696190
HB/PB
Ebook
Format
Ebook
Pages
240
Other Editions
Height x Width mm
228 x 158
Teaching Notes
THE LAST WHALE TEACHING NOTES LGR.pdf
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