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Eyes of fire : the last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior / David Robie

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Auckland : Asia Pacific Network, c2005Edition: Memorial editionDescription: xii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 17 x 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781877314469
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TD 169 .R63 2005
Contents:
1. How Sir William became the warrior -- 2. The Curse called Bravo -- 3. From Jacksonville to Majuro -- 4. Operation Exodus -- 5. The Kwajalein Capers -- 6. From Majuro to Marsden Wharf -- 7. The Death of a warrior -- 8. Blunderwatergate -- 9. Moruroa, Mon Amour -- 10. The Nuclear blackmailers
Summary: On 10 July 1985, French secret agents bombed the Greenpeace campaign flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand. Portuguese-born photographer Fernando Pereira died in the sabotage outrage that shook the world. The bombed ship was scuttled off a New Zealand bay in 1987 to form a living reef and Rainbow Warrior II was commissioned. In 1996, France ended nuclear tests in Polynesia after further Greenpeace and Pacific protests. This redesigned and revised new "memorial edition" of the original 1986 book contains new material and additional pictures about American and French nuclear testing in the Pacific.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Annex General Circulation Special Collection GC TD 169 .R63 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000019803

Previous ed.: Lindon Publishing, 1986.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. How Sir William became the warrior -- 2. The Curse called Bravo -- 3. From Jacksonville to Majuro -- 4. Operation Exodus -- 5. The Kwajalein Capers -- 6. From Majuro to Marsden Wharf -- 7. The Death of a warrior -- 8. Blunderwatergate -- 9. Moruroa, Mon Amour -- 10. The Nuclear blackmailers

On 10 July 1985, French secret agents bombed the Greenpeace campaign flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand. Portuguese-born photographer Fernando Pereira died in the sabotage outrage that shook the world. The bombed ship was scuttled off a New Zealand bay in 1987 to form a living reef and Rainbow Warrior II was commissioned. In 1996, France ended nuclear tests in Polynesia after further Greenpeace and Pacific protests. This redesigned and revised new "memorial edition" of the original 1986 book contains new material and additional pictures about American and French nuclear testing in the Pacific.

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