Seal Wars: Twenty-Five Years on the Front Lines with the Harp Seals

Seal Warsopens in 1996 with Paul Watson — holed up in a hotel with Martin Sheen in the Magdalen Islands and facing an attacking mob of angry sealers — being rescued by police and airlifted to safety. Watson recounts the childhood experiences that shaped his adult consciousness and environmental ethic. He records a history of the seal hunt (including all the tragedies, brutalities, and government mismanagement and obfuscation) from its beginning up to the rescue campaigns he courageously led from the prow of the Sea Shepherd.

Starting in 1976 with a Greenpeace crew off Labrador, Paul Watson has braved numerous forays onto the ice floes, many with such celebrities as Brigitte Bardot, Farley Mowat, Martin Sheen, and Pierce Brosnan. He has served time in prison, debated politicians, and quite often put his life on the line. In a passionate defense of environmental responsibility, Seal Warsguides us through the highs and lows, the defeats and successes of Watson's untiring devotion to this noble cause.