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Peter Heller spent two months at sea aboard the eco-pirate ship Farley Mowat as it hunted down the Japanese whaling fleet in the ice and storms of Antarctica. The crew was comprised of Earthfirst activists, former military, Hollywood producers, professional gamblers. Two days south of Tasmania the engineers came on deck and welded a giant blade to the bow called the Can Opener. The book is a wild high seas adventure set against the backdrop of brutal commercial whaling and an ocean in peril.
"Peter Heller has written a funny, angry, explosive book, which is as much high adventure at sea as it is a portrait of our relationship to the world's oceans. You're reminded of Ed Abbey's explosive lyrical prose, the antics of Robin Hood, and the wry eye of John Steinbeck. If you've ever wondered about life aboard a 'vegan attack vessel' The Whale Warriors is your ticket. Heller's world here is so unusual, so wild, that you'd think he'd discovered it across the far-flung seas, and you'd be right."
-Doug Stanton, author of the bestselling In Harm's Way, the story of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis
"There are few human beings worthy of being recognized as heroes.
Captain Paul Watson and his crews are in the van and Peter Heller gives
them their well earned due. Read the book and cheer - and weep!"
-Farley Mowat, author
of Never Cry Wolf
"Indifferent to expense, hardship or personal peril, Peter Heller has
once again gone to the ends of the earth to give us a roistering good
adventure narrative. In Captain Paul Watson, he has found an outrageous
character of the high seas, the kind of modern anti-Ahab. Fearless,
irascible, and immune to the concept of compromise, this spirited
eco-vigilante is as refreshing on the page as he is feared and dreaded
among the world's illegal whale poachers. Like its protagonist,
Heller's tale moves along at full ramming speed."
-Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and Blood and Thunder.
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