Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World's Greatest Non-Event

By Tom Rose

Book Overview

Now a major motion picture starring Drew Barrymore, Ted Danson, Kristen Bell, Tim Blake Nelson, John Krasinski, and Vinessa Shaw--an account of the dramatic rescue of three gray whales trapped under... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559720115
• ISBN13: 9781559720113
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Carol Publishing Group
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Remarkble

Rose crafts a remarkable web around one of the last decade's most bizarre media events. The stranding of three Alaska Grey Whales enabled the rarely connected worlds of increasingly visually dependent media, environmentalists, Inuits and two superpowers in a vortex of international attention. Perhaps it was the low expectations, but I found this short, crisp book, impossible to put down. You will too.