Murray Newman and Moby Doll

• Main Author: Colby, Jason M.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2018
• Subjects: East Point; Fraser River; Jagged; Orca
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190673093.003.0008

For two months, Sam Burich had sat at East Point, on the jagged edge of Saturna Island, staring across the Strait of Georgia and waiting for killer whales. The thirty-eight-year-old Croatian immigrant was not a whaler but a sculptor by trade, though he dabbled in fishing to make ends meet. He had co...