Litterature

SEAL WARS! AN AMERICAN VIEWPOINT
by Janice HENKE

Author: JANICE HENKE
Title: Seal Wars! an american Viewpoint
Release date: 1985
Publisher: Breakwater Press
Subject: Seal hunting
ISBN: 0-919519-63-6
Overview: Based on sound and extensive research, Seal Wars is an in-depth look at the operations and fund-raising tactics of anti-sealing animal rights groups. The book focuses on the Canadian Seal Wars of the 80's and covers a broad spectrum of topics from the hunt itself to government seal management to media control. Henke does a masterful job of portraying how deep a weave the sealing issue actually is and how the groups involved in fighting the hunt have honed the art of media and public manipulation. She finishes by taking the reader through a close look at each of the main groups involved in fighting the Canadina seal hunt leaving the reader to make up thier own mind as to how valid of invlid the fight actually was and still is.


EMBRACING THE WILD RESOURCES: A GLOBAL CONSERVATION VISION
by Eugene Lapointe, chairman, IWMC World Conservation Trust, and former secretary-general to CITES 

Author: EUGÈNE LAPOINTE, chairman, IWMC World Conservation Trust, and former secretary-general to CITES
Title: Embracing the Earth's Wild Resources: A Global Conservation Vision
Release date: 2003
Publisher: SCRIBE
Subject: Animalist groups
ISBN :
Overview: After working prominently in the field of international conservation for over twenty years, Eugene Lapointe has at last put pen to paper and produced what he describes as a compendium of conservation thought, opinion and analysis, in his long-awaited debut book, "Embracing the Earth’s Wild Resources". Targeted at those interested in the state of conservation today and students of political science, this book should also be required reading for CEOs. After defining conservation, Mr. Lapointe pulls no punches as he challenges the protectionist orthodoxy of the modern environmentalist movement and, through a series of detailed examples, exposes the modus operandi of groups such as WWF, Greenpeace and PETA.

 

ARTIC WARS, ANIMAL RIGHTS, ENDANGERED PEOPLES
by Finn Lynge

 

Author: FINN LYNGE
Title: Arctic Wars, Animal Rights, Endangered Peoples
Release date: 1992
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Subject: Cultures
ISBN-10: 0874515882; ISBN-13: 978-0874515886. 
Overview: Which is more important, an endangered species or an endangered culture? In a world of diminishing resources, must one be sacrificed for the preservation of the other? Native Greenlander Finn Lynge makes an impassioned plea for consideration of indigenous Arctic cultures. With a perspective rarely considered in the mass media or power centers, he argues that the so-called animal rights movement has put whales and seals above humans. Lynge reveals the Euro-American and urban biases in animal protectionism and presents an alternative scenario, stressing mutual understanding and respect for cultural differences

DEATH ON THE ICE:THEGREAT NEWFOUNDLAND SEALING DISASTER OF 1914
by Cassie Brown


Author: CASSIE BROWN
Title: Death on the Ice: The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914
Release date: 1988
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Subject: Seal hunting
ISBN-10: 0385251793; ISBN-13: 978-0385251792.
Overview: Each year, for generations, poor, ill-clad Newfoundland fishermen sailed out to hunt seals in the hope of a few pennies in wages from the prosperous merchants of St. John's. The year 1914 witnessed the worst in the long line of tragedies that were part of their harsh way of life. For two long, freezing days and nights a party of seal hunters - 132 men - were left stranded on an icefield floating in the North Atlantic in winter. They were thinly dressed, with almost no food, and with no hope of shelter on the ice against the snow or the constant, bitter winds. To survive they had to keep moving, always moving. Those who lay down to rest died. Heroes emerged - one man froze his lips badly, biting off the icicles that were blinding his comrades. Other men froze in their tracks, or went mad with pain and walked off the edge of the icefield. All the while, ships steamed about nearby, unnoticing. And by the time help arrived, two thirds of the men were dead. This is an incredible story of bungling and greed, of suffering and heroism. The disaster is carefully traced, step by step. With the aid of compelling, contemporary photographs the book paints an unforgettable portrait of the bloody trade of seal hunting among the icefields when ships - and men - were expendable.

OUT OF NECESSITY:THE STORY OF SEALSKIN BOOTS IN THE STRAIT OF BELE ISLE
by Allan Bock


Author: ALLAN BOCK
Title: Out of necessity: the story of sealskin boots in the Strait of Belle Isle
Release date: 1991
Editor: Peninsula Typesetting & Design
Subject: Seal hunting
ISBN:
Overview: The story of sealskin boots and how they today have come to be synonymous with the Strait of Belle Isle region of  Newfoundland and Labrador is a facinating one. It's steeped in history and of a need to make the best use of the resources offered by nature.

THE SEAL HUNT
by M.C. Mercer

Author: M.C. MERCER
Title: The seal hunt
Release date: 
Publisher: Department of Fisheries & Environment, Ottawa
Subject: Seal hunting
ISBN:

LIVING ICE:THE STORY OF THE SEALS AND MEN WHO HUNT THEM IN THE GULF OF ST-LAWRENCE
by Pol Chantraine

Author: POL CHANTRAINE
Title: Living Ice: The Story of the Seals and the Men Who Hunt Them in the Gulf of St. Lawrence
Release date: March 1980
Publisher: Mcclelland & Stewart Ltd
Subject: Seal hunting
ISBN-10: 0771019602 ISBN-13: 978-0771019609
English translation of ''La grande Mouvée''

BLUE ICE:THE SEALING ADVENTURES OF ARTIST GEORGE NOSEWORTY
by Daphne Noseworty

Author: DAPHNE NOSEWORTHY
Title: Blue Ice: The sealing adventures of artist George Noseworthy
Release date: 2010
Publisher: Creative Publishers
Subject: Seal hunting, Paints
ISBN:1-897174-50-0 
ISBN 13: 978-1-897174-50-0
Overview: Blue Ice is an illustrated biography based on the extraordinary diary of the late artist George A. Noseworthy. In 1970 he boarded the 253-foot “Chesley A. Crosbie” out of St. John's, NL., bound for the ice-fields and the annual seal hunt off Northern Labrador and Newfoundland. Until this time, he was the only artist who had actually gone to “the front.” Blue Ice dramatically records Noseworthy’s time in the wild. As he was portraying the life of the courageous sealers through his art, he was also recording the daily hunt in his journal. Blue Ice is the true account of George Noseworthy’s passion for adventure – and the men of Newfoundland’s sealing industry whose bravery he immortalized in his art.