Getting Back on Track

January 31, 2009

Tags: Polar bears, Discovery Channel, Discovery Earth

I fell off the horse for a little while there. The past few weeks have been personally difficult as I attempt to right my emotional ship after everything that has happened since the middle of 2008. But now I am forging ahead, hoping to finish The Ice Wanderers by the end of March. (more…)

Book News

January 10, 2009

Tags: polar bears

I'm hoping we have a title for my upcoming polar bear book. The working title had been Ice Bear but the marketing folks wanted something more lyrical, so my editor came up with The Ice Wanderer: A Natural and Unnatural History of Polar Bears. I love it; I think it conveys everything I want to convey. We'll see now whether it gets the final green light. (more…)

Happy New Year

January 2, 2009

Happy New Year to everyone. I hope 2009 brings you all everything for which you hope and dream.

New Years was a little maudlin at Mulvaney Manors. Mom and Michael both went to bed well before midnight, and Stephen and I sat and watched the London fireworks on TV. (more…)

Publications

The Whaling Season: An Inside Account of the Struggle to Stop Commercial Whaling
The inside story of the campaign against commercial whaling, as told by the leader of four Greenpeace voyages to confront the Antarctic whaling fleet.
At the Ends of the Earth: A History of the Polar Regions
The story of how the Arctic and Antarctic have influenced, and in turn been affected by, human history.
Witness: Twenty-Five Years on the Environmental Front Line
A photographic history of Greenpeace, with introductory text by me, and a foreword by the Dalai Lama.