The Spill: Personal Stories from the Exxon Valdez Disaster
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Twenty years after the Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef, sixty-two men and women share personal stories of what they saw, how they reacted, and how they coped with North America's worst tanker oil spill...Reliving their experiences are fishermen, Native villagers, biologists, environmentalists, sociologists, Exxon executives, the governor, mayors, journalists, workers who washed oily rocks even the skipper of the ill-fated ship. The Spill is co-edited by Stan Jones, a founding member of the Prince William Sound Citizen Advisory Board and Sharon Bushel, author of We Alaskans.
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