Jason M. Colby is associate professor of environmental and international history at the University of Victoria. He has worked as a commercial fisherman in Alaska and Washington State. He is the author of The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America.
Drawing on interviews, official records, private archives, and his own family history, Jason M. Colby tells the exhilarating and often heartbreaking story of how people came to love the ocean's greatest predator. Historically reviled as dangerous pests, k...[SEE MORE]