Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World's Greatest Non-eventMuch more than an account of the most massive animal rescue ever conducted, this book describes how the media turned an everyday happening into an international rescue mission that ultimately involved the two great super-powers, the U.S. and Russia, in freeing the trapped whales. 12 pages of photos. |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictRose's supposed contempt, expressed in his subtitle, for the 1988 story of the international effort to free three grey whales trapped in freezing waters outside of Barrow, Alaska, is belied in the way ... Read full review
Contents
The Hunt | 11 |
From the Edge of the Universe to the Center of | 24 |
25000 Years Below 0 | 44 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World's Greatest Non-event A Birch Lane Press book |
| Author | Tom Rose |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Carol Publishing Group, 1989 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 12, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1559720115, 9781559720113 |
| Length | 318 pages |
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