The two-headed whale life, loss, and the tangled legacy of whaling in the Antarctic
"The Two-Headed Whale vividly brings to life the spectacular scenery and wildlife of the vast Southern Oceans, set alongside the true-life story of Anthony Ford, the boy in the grave, as he sailed the same seas and toiled in an industry where profits outranked human life. Drawing together threads of...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Vancouver ; Berkeley ; London :
Greystone Books : David Suzuki Institute,
2023.
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| Summary: | "The Two-Headed Whale vividly brings to life the spectacular scenery and wildlife of the vast Southern Oceans, set alongside the true-life story of Anthony Ford, the boy in the grave, as he sailed the same seas and toiled in an industry where profits outranked human life. Drawing together threads of nature and travel writing with an unflinching narrative of life aboard a whaling factory ship and the legacy it left behind, The Two-Headed Whale leaves us questioning our troubled relationship with the extraordinary abundance of this planet."-- |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 243 pages : black and white map ; 23 cm Issued also in electronic format. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-239). |
| ISBN: | 9781778400902 1778400906 |
| Author Notes: | Sandy Winterbottom spent most of her career as an academic teaching and researching in the Environmental Sciences at Stirling University. In 2010, she left to work in the renewables industry but following a life-changing trip to South Georgia and the Antarctic in 2016, she returned to study and completed the Creative Writing Masters Programme at Stirling University, tutored by Kathleen Jamie. She lives near Muckhart in Central Scotland. |
