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St. Martin's Press
December 2011
On Sale: December 20, 2011
335 pages
ISBN: 0312625197
EAN: 9780312625191
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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 the ice in Alaska in 1988. Set in Cold War–era 1988, Big Miracle tells the real
story behind the remarkable, bizarre, and oftentimes
uproarious event that mesmerized the world for weeks. On
October 7, an Inuit hunter near Barrow, Alaska, found three
California Gray whales imprisoned in the Arctic ice. In the
past, as was nature's way, trapped whales always died. Not this time. Tom Rose, who was covering the event for a Japanese TV
station, compellingly describes how oil company executives,
environmental activists, Inupiat people, small business
people, and the U.S. military boldly worked together to
rescue the whales. He also tells the stories of some of the more than
150 international journalists who brought the story to the
world's attention. The rescue was followed by millions of
people around the world as Ronald Reagan and Mikhail
Gorbachev joined the forces of their two nations to help
free the whales.
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