[CINC] New T.C. Boyle novel about Channel Islands

Mon Feb 21 14:54:26 PST 2011

Changing Pace to Non-Fiction, "Grayson", by Lynne Cox, is better than fiction, and fits right in with our Gray Whale season at hand! Lynne is a world record holder at feats unbelievable in marathon swimming. She has also been honored with a lifetime achievement award from UCSB and has been names a LA Times Woman of the Year. "Grayson", published in 2008, is her story of an encounter with a baby Gray Whale while, as a teenager, she was finishing a long training session in early morning hours off the Southern California coast. The baby whale seemed lost and had been following her, since it was dark.. Lynne was advised by a friend on the pier,  that if she swam back to the pier, the calf would follow her to shore and possibly die.  The rest is better than fiction!  Paul

From: langle411 at gmail.com
To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:28:02 -0800
Subject: Re: [CINC] New T.C. Boyle novel about Channel Islands

All you fiction readers out there might also enjoy 
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National bestseller 
Doug Abrams delivers a captivating ecological thriller about a marine biologist 
whose fate is altered after the unexpected appearance of a humpback whale sends 
her on a race to discover the meaning of its mysterious song and its 
implications for human survival.
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  Paul Jr. 
  Petrich 
  To: Lisa IPCO ; david chub ; channel_islands_ 
  naturalist_corps 
  Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 9:32 
  PM
  Subject: Re: [CINC] New T.C. Boyle novel 
  about Channel Islands

Sunday L A Times Book Review,
   TC Boyle's "When the Killing's Done" is reviewed by Richard Rayner 
  in today's Arts & Books section of the LA Times.  Paul

> 
  From: landerson at islandpackers.com
> 
  To: davidchubb at cox.net; channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org
> 
  Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:29:26 -0800
> Subject: Re: [CINC] New T.C. 
  Boyle novel about Channel Islands
> 
> FYI
> TC Boyle has 
  been out with Island Packers numerous times as a guest at the
> Ranch. 
  Island Packers will be carrying the book.
> Please note that the Park 
  Service, TNC, and Marla Daly from Santa Cruz
> island Foundation have 
  all gave the book their blessing. For those of you
> that have been 
  around for a while, rat irradication, pig irradication and
> all the 
  other "issues" we dealt with will most likely come around again.
> I 
  would suggest reading up on past procedures regarding these issues.
> 

> Lisa Anderson
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
  From: channel_islands_naturalist_corps-bounces at rain.org
> 
  [mailto:channel_islands_naturalist_corps-bounces at rain.org] On Behalf 
  Of
> David Chubb
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 2:07 PM
> 
  To: Rain List
> Subject: [CINC] New T.C. Boyle novel about Channel 
  Islands
> 
> I just saw a book review in the New York Times (Feb 
  18, 2011) about T.C. 
> Boyle's new novel, "When the Killing's Done." We 
  are all well-versed in 
> the backdrop of the novel, which is the CINP 
  actions taken in recent 
> years to preserve native species on the 
  islands. Boyle explores the 
> controversy over those actions.
> 

> From the NY Times: "When the Killing's Done" is a forthright 
> 
  examination of that desire, in which the remodelers of earthly creation 

> have to measure the worth of a healthy ecosystem against the lives of 

> damaging invaders. The dilemma is so rarely discussed that animal 
  lovers 
> and environmentalists are routinely lumped into the same 
  political camp. 
> One of the novel's many merits is its well-informed 
  framing of the moral 
> difference between them.
> 
> From 
  reading two of Boyle's novels, "Riven Rock," based in Montecito, 
> and 
  "Tortilla Curtain," which takes place in the Topanga Canyon, I 
> 
  anticipate the book will have some bizarre characters and events but, in 

> the end, I hope, will do a great service in spreading awareness of 
  the 
> Channel Islands and what the park service has accomplished. The 

> publication date is February 22nd.
> 
> Link to 
  review:
> 
  https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/books/review/Kingsolver-t.html?pagewanted
> 
  =2&_r=1&nl=books&emc=booksupdateema3
> 
> David 
  Chubb
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