The Remarkable Story of an Indian Tribe's Quest to Regain its Ancient Rituals in the Modern World.
When the Makah, a small Indian tribe living on the north-west coast of America, decided to reclaim their traditional right to hunt grey whales, Robert Sullivan became captivated by their story. He spent two years with them, watching them prepare for the hunt, and seeing how they coped with the world's media, protesting environmentalists determined to save the whales and their own internal divisions.
For the Makah were totally unprepared for what they had taken on: they were going out to the windswept oceans in a hand-carved canoe, trying to rediscover a ritual that had once defined them but now had not been practised for generations. Part high seas adventure, part idiosyncratic travelogue and part ethical debate about hunting and the rights of animals and ancient cultures, 'A Whale Hunt' is a remarkable story of how a few individuals saw their lives changed forever by their decision to go hunting once again.
