Gus Openshaw's Whale-Killing Journal

Gus Openshaw's Whale-Killing Journal

Hardback (01 Mar 2007)

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Publisher's Synopsis

I got a fish to kill. Cat food cannery worker Gus Openshaw has one goal in life: to kill a whale. Not just any whale, but a big, blubbery whale that ate his wife, child, and arm during a vicious and unprovoked attack. With a rickety boat and a heavily restrictive whale-hunting license, Gus sets out to exact his revenge. Along the way, Gus keeps an online journal - a blog - to keep the world informed about his misfit crew, his clashes with pirates, his near-fatal incarceration, and his infatuation with a certain island princess. Complete with scrimshaw illustrations, Gus Openshaw's Whale-Killing Journal is the outrageous documentation of one man's obsessive pursuit of a giant whale that would make Captain Ahab proud.

Book information

ISBN: 9781847240439
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Imprint: Quercus
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.6
DEWEY edition: 22
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 393g
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Spine width: 29mm