If nothing else, I just hoped to immerse myself in one such organisation and get a feel for the lives its people lead and their motivations and outlooks. I picked up Willcox's memoir on the advice of a friend I'd been looking for perspectives from individuals engaged in activist organisations. This book is that story, but it's also the more substantial one of Willcox's career with Greenpeace, seen from his earliest days in the organisation, on to the notorious bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in 1985 by French agents, and through the many memorable actions he's been a part of over the course of that career and up to the present. During this action, all 30 crew members were arrested and imprisoned by the Russian government. In September 2013, Captain Peter Willcox and the crew of the Greenpeace vessel, the Arctic Sunrise, took part in an action against Gazprom's Prirazlomnaya drilling platform.
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