Big Miracle, Tom Rose
Big Miracle, Tom Rose
List: $24.99 | Sale: $17.50
Club: $12.49

Big Miracle

Author: Tom Rose

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 12 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/20/2011

Synopsis

Set in Cold-War-era 1988, Big Miracle is the real story behind the remarkable, bizarre and often times uproarious event that mesmerized the world for weeks. On October 7, an Inuit hunter 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. Rose compellingly describes how oil company executives, Greenpeace activists, Eskimos, businessmen, and military officers heroically worked together to save the whales. The book also features 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 and brought President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the General Secretary of the Soviet Union, to join forces.

About Tom Rose

Tom Rose covered the 1988 whale rescue as a reporter and producer for Japanese TV. He spent the next several months in Alaska interviewing every major player involved in both the rescue and media coverage of it. Today, Rose, the former Publisher and CEO of the Jerusalem Post, is a conservative talk show host on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio. He writes regularly on the Middle East and lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily

This is a review of an advanced copy provided to me through Goodreads' FirstReads program. Big Miracle is the true story of the rescue of three trapped whales in 1988. The whales started their southern migration too late in the summer season, and soon found themselves trapped in the ice near Barrow,......more

Goodreads review by Clare

A news reporter covers the story of the media frenzy which arose after three California grey whales were trapped by ice off Barrow, Alaska, at the onset of 1988's winter. We start with an account of a hunt of a bowhead whale, which the native people find much tastier. If these three juvenile whales......more

Goodreads review by Beth

BIG MIRACLE by Tom Rose is the nonfiction story of a nonevent (Rose’s word) in 1988 that became so huge it captured the attention of the world and just about preempted a presidential election in the United States. In Barrow, Alaska, “the tip of the world,” three whales were trapped beneath ice and c......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List