Sea Shepherd: My Fight for Whales & Seals
by: Paul Watson

Hardcover. NY, W W Norton & Co., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 258 pages, b&w illustrations. Records in detail Watson's heroic war against the whalers and seal hunters who are decimating the animal populations. The young Canadian conservationist, is determined to stop that, even if it costs him his life. Three times, on the ice floes off Labrador, he threw himself between baby harp seals and their killers. He sprayed the pups with a harmless red dye, rendering their white pelts commercially useless. He was beaten, nearly drowned, jailed. Against Soviet and Japanese whalers, he raced his kamikaze inflatable dinghy to a blocking position between harpooner and whale. Then, which his own boat, the Sea Shepherd, supported by the Cleveland Amory's Fund for Animals, Watson rammed the pirate whaler Sierra off Portugal. Bookplate on inside front cover, light foxing to edges of text block, otherwise clean.