Last Whale, The (Greenpeace)

FISHING Conservation

“a chronicle of the people and events that created Greenpeace in Australia, it also seeks to understand the minds and thinking of those who hunted whales in Australia”

The dramatic story of the battle by Greenpeace to end whaling in Australia. The author recounts the fears, motives and actions of the whalers and of the anti-whaling activists who risked their lives to stop them in an extraordinary struggle on the wild Southern Ocean – an unequal contest between steel ships and open rubber dinghies. pp. 218 illusts #1119/120524

• Greenpeace Australia
• Whales — Conservation — Australia — History
• Whaling — Environmental aspects — Australia
• Environmentalists — Australia — Political activity

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