The Two-Headed Whale: Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy of Whaling in the Antarctic Winterbottom Sandy
The Two-Headed Whale: Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy of Whaling in the Antarctic Winterbottom Sandy An elegant blend of "polemic, industrial history, nautical writing, elegy and ecology" (The…
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The Two-Headed Whale: Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy of Whaling in the Antarctic Winterbottom Sandy
An elegant blend of "polemic, industrial history, nautical writing, elegy and ecology" (The Scotsman), The Two-Headed Whale charts the tragic history of the post-war whaling industry alongside the author's thrilling memoir of sailing the Antarctic.In 2016, Sandy Winterbottom embarked on an epic six-week tall-ship voyage from Uruguay to Antarctica. Enraged by what she found, she was quick to blame the men who undertook this wholescale slaughter, but then she stumbled upon the grave of an eighteen-year-old whaler from Edinburgh who she could not allow to bear the brunt of blame. At the mid-way stop in South Georgia, her pristine image of the Antarctic was shattered when she discovered the dark legacy of twentieth century industrial-scale whaling.
There are two sides to every story.The Two-Headed Whale vividly brings to life the spectacular