Seal Wars

Captain Paul Watson has rammed fishing trawlers, smashed whaling ships,ailed boldly into Soviet waters, and stood bravely on an ice floe between aaby harp seal and an oncoming seal boat. In this daring and sprawling memoir,he captain of Sea Shepherd recounts his life on the front lines in the waro stop the slaughter of the Canadian harp seal. Seal Wars opens with anncident in 1995 when, holed up in a hotel with actor Martin Sheen in theagdalen Islands and facing an angry mob of sealers who had stormed the hotel,atson had to be rescued by police and airlifted to safety. Watson recountshe childhood experiences that shaped his adult consciousness andnvironmental ethic.;He records a history of the seal hunt from itseginnings - including the tragedies, brutalities, and governmentismanagement and obfuscations - up to the campaigns he himself has led fromhe prow of the Sea Shepherd. Starting in 1976 with a Greenpeace crew offabrador, Paul Watson has braved numerous forays onto the ice floes, manyith such celebrities as Brigitte Bardot, Farley Mowat, Martin Sheen and