Big Miracle: Inspired by the Incredible True Story That United the World

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Item: Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World&#39;s Greatest Non-Event
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by Tom Rose

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0312625197

ISBN13:9780312625191

Release Date:December 2011

Publisher:St. Martins Press-3PL

Length:336 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"

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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago

Rose crafts a remarkable web around one of the last decade's most bizarre media events. The stranding of three Alaska Grey Whales enabled the rarely connected worlds of increasingly visually dependent media, environmentalists, Inuits and two superpowers in a vortex of international attention. Perhaps it was the low expectations, but I found this short, crisp book, impossible to put down. You will too.

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