Big Miracle
eBook - ePub

Big Miracle

Inspired by the Incredible True Story that United the World

  1. 335 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Big Miracle

Inspired by the Incredible True Story that United the World

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Chapter 1. The Hunt
  6. Chapter 2. From the Edge of the World to the Center of the Media Universe
  7. Chapter 3. The Eskimos: 25,000 Years Below Zero Degrees
  8. Chapter 4. Here Come the Media
  9. Chapter 5. A Whale in Every Living Room
  10. Chapter 6. The Tigress from Greenpeace
  11. Chapter 7. Billy Bob’s Last Frontier
  12. Chapter 8. A Great Eskimo Hunter Saves the Whales
  13. Chapter 9. Colonel Carroll’s Impossible Task
  14. Chapter 10. From Kickers to Leads
  15. Chapter 11. The President Watches TV, Too
  16. Chapter 12. G’day, Australia
  17. Chapter 13. The Arctic and the White House Joined by Love
  18. Chapter 14. Barrow: Frostbite for the Big Time
  19. Chapter 15. Minneapolis Comes to the Rescue
  20. Chapter 16. Saving Whales the Old-fashioned Way
  21. Chapter 17. Polar Bears Threaten to Steal the Show
  22. Chapter 18. The Whales Nearly Bring a Government to Its Knees
  23. Chapter 19. Desperate: Nothing Seems to Work
  24. Chapter 20. The Russians Are Coming
  25. Chapter 21. Risking Lives for a Six-Second Scoop
  26. Chapter 22. Sergei Reshetov: “Let’s Cut Ice”
  27. Chapter 23. Free at Last
  28. Chapter 24. Consequences
  29. Notes
  30. Acknowledgments
  31. Index
  32. About the Author
  33. Copyright