A WHALE FOR THE KILLING

By Farley Mowat

Good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper.

From the collection of well-known big game and saltwater angler Jack Reece, with his angling bookplate tipped in and with his embossed ownership stamp to front end-paper.

(1972) 1974 Readers Union edition. 8vo (138 x 220mm). Pp239. Not illustrated. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

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"A rare Fin whale, a majestic creature weighing 80 tons, became trapped in a salt-lake lagoon on the south-west coast of Newfoundland. The attitude of a collection of people was that the trapped whale provided good 'sport' and they stood with rifles and shotguns and poured hundreds of rounds of ammunition into the animal. Farley Mowat had lived in Newfoundland with his wife for some years and he immediately set about trying to save the whale by appealing to the so-called sportsmen and organising some way for the victim to to get out into the ocean at high tide. His demands and the ensuing publicity resulted in the Prime Minister of Newfoundland personally adopting the whale and appointing Mowat its keeper. This book, which was the first choice for the Book of the Month Club in Canada and the alternative choice for the Club in America, tells the story of the life and death struggle for one anima's survival. It is also a plea for the end of all wanton destruction. A moving tale, beautifully written." (Publisher's blurb).