The Hunting of the Whale: A Tragedy That Must End

by Jeremy Cherfas

Whales, the largest animals ever to exist on Earth and the campaign to save them, have caught the popular imagination. In this book Jeremy Cherfas covers the biology of these creatures, the history of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140118446
• ISBN13: 9780140118445
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

On whaling and the fight to save the whales

An excellent book that deals with the profoundly tragic issue of whaling; man has done much to destroy nature, and the plight of the whale is one of the most dismaying aspects of man's greed and arrogance; over the century, many species were nearly hunted to extinction, and even today some countries persist in whaling, fully aware of the consequences.