Entanglements

Tora Johnson teaches human ecology and geographic information science at the University of Maine at Machias. She is the author of Guide to Freshwater Animals Without Backbones.

"Tora Johnson has a knack for storytelling, but also a sense of balance in her reporting and an evident commitment to truth-telling. In this compelling book, she confronts one of the thorniest, most searing wildlife-human conflicts of the day. She does so with sensitivity for the human antagonists, conveying their foibles, passions, grace, and ordinariness, and with a solid understanding of the animals (from minute copepods to gigantic whales) and their marine environment."--Randall R. Reeves, chairman, Cetacean Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union, and author of National Audubon Society Guide to Marine Mammals of the World. "Johnson guides us through a conflict which has raged for over 400 years. With ease the reader is introduced to the personalities and struggles that tie two of nature's strongest-willed creatures together, the fishermen and the whale."--John Pappalardo, Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association, Chatham, Massachusetts"