One where you have to work intimately and collaboratively with your environment. One that oriented you towards day to day living concerns – shelter, food, love, community. Thank you Farley Mowat for slowing my heart and transcending me into a different space and place.Īs I read, I identified and craved the slower, simpler, vaster life. I felt thankful for feeling its magnitude. I surrendered and looked at the little head sleeping in my arms hoping that I would remember the image and feeling – a moment I know is and will be fleeting as he grows into a man. We were tired, but that good kind of tired you feel after a day in the outdoors. I imagined in that moment that we were in a cabin in the arctic, after a day of “gathering” and playing. I took a bath, lied down and let one of my sons fall asleep in my arms. One night I read a few chapters and I felt my heart rate slow, I felt my intuitions align.
One where the people and species in it absorbed the beauty and harshness of the natural environment. Mowat befriended Eskimos, natives, bush pilots and even animals along the way.Įvery time I picked up the book, I got drawn into a slower world. Rather than killing the Caribou, they were enforcing the Caribou’s existence and strength. Feeding mostly on mice and squirrels, the wolves lived in their dens, raised their young and supported the biodiversity in the region. He found the wolves to be calm, family oriented and predicable.
The undertone of the Government study was essentially to prove that this hypothesis was correct.įarley Mowat, experience however was very much different. The government and people of the country at the time suspected that the wolves were killing all the northern Caribou – thus leaving little left for man to hunt for food or pleasure. He was hired by the Canadian government to do an in depth “study” of the wolves. The book is based on a true account of his experience living in the Arctic amongst wolves. I recently finished Never Cry Wolf and I loved it. "A swift kick to any remaining complacency about the plight of our oceans" ( National Geographic Adventure), The Whale Warriors is "two parts high seas swashbuckle and one part inconvenient truth" ( Surfer).Have you ever read a book by Canadian Author Farley Mowat? If not, I highly recommend you check out some of his writing. The exploitation of endangered whales is emblematic of an over-exploitation of the seas that is now entering its desperate denouement with our own survival in the balance. Japan threatens to send down defense aircraft and warships, Australia appeals for calm, New Zealand dispatches military surveillance aircraft, the US Office of Naval Intelligence issues a piracy warning, and international media begin to track the developing whale war.Īs Heller describes the slow, rusting, old Norwegian trawler Farley Mowat and the fast, new six ship whaling fleet of the Japanese, we also learn about the crisis of our oceans, which are on the verge of total ecosystem collapse.
But while the ships are far from rescue, the world is watching. Heller recreates a nail-biting showdown when Captain Watson and his crew attempt to deliberately ram an enormous Japanese whaling ship, trying to tear open its hull with a steel blade called a "Can Opener." In thirty-five-foot seas, a deadly game of Antarctic chicken begins. The little ship is black, flies under a jolly roger, and carries members of the Sea Shepherd Society, a radical environmental group who are willing to die to stop illegal whale hunting. For two months in 2005, journalist Peter Heller was aboard the Farley Mowat as it stalked its prey-a Japanese whaling fleet-through the storms and ice of Antarctica. The Whale Warriors is an adventure story set in the far reaches of the globe. Description Now with a new afterword by the author, the tenth-anniversary edition of Peter Heller's "swashbuckling adventure" ( Publishers Weekly) takes us on a hair-raising journey aboard a whale saving pirate ship with a vigilante crew whose mission is to stop illegal Japanese whaling in the stormy seas of Antarctica.
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