Sea of Slaughter
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (848 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1576300196 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 446 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This "howl of outrage" (Kirkus) chronicles how whales, once one of the most complex and stable life forms on Earth, became virtually eradicated; how great auks, numbering the hundreds of millions, were driven extinct; how creatures as diverse as walruses and seals, cod and cormorants, nearly suffered the same fate.. With the dedicated reasearch and highly readable prose that are his hallmarks, Farley Mowat painstakingly recounts the grim fate of the wildlife of the North Atlantic seaboard after the arrival of European man
"Mowat's most important book yet." - Roger Tory Peterson
"Mowat at his best" according to M. G. Bailey. What is really happening to species in the oceans? Why have we finally fotten some international controls in place? Read this book and you will find out why. At points it is sickening and not for the faint of heart, but it is LIFE not only for the mammals, but for humans also. It is the truth he speaks, and every word he writes. This book is for people who either put their heads in the sand and don't want to know what is going on in the world, and gives fuel and puts the smoking gun into . Mark said Slaughter for Profit. Passionate, well-written account of what has become of animal life in North America since the arrival of the Europeans in the early 1500's. Amazing. I will never look at the world in the same way. Farley Mowat, focusing on the North-east of North America, paints a vivid picture of what animal life was like from 1500 to the present, frequently quoting those who saw it in its near natural state hundreds of years ago -- the great awk, the white bear, the buffalo, the whales, the dolphins, th. "Perhaps you�re not the slaughtering kind�" according to Owen Hughes. Since reading Mowat's "Sea of Slaughter," I can't get a certain picture out of my mind. It is of a sandy ocean beach, miles and miles long, where tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of morse came to socialize every summer until the middle of last century. The morse, or northern walrus, was a stupendous animal, of impressive bearing: a veritable lion of the sea. Yet it comes no more to those grounds, once the largest colony of its kind, out on Canada's Magdalene Islands, off th