Taiji - The Story of the Japan Dolphins
Today the secret of ‘The Cove’ and Taiji’s annual dolphin hunt is out.
Set amid the activists’ frontline battle to protect Taiji’s dolphins, ‘Taiji’ presents a bigger untold story to readers.
Len Varley details his mysterious encounters with a number of captive dolphins, and interactions with police and dolphin hunters. There is action and intrigue; loyalty and loss.
‘Taiji’ is a broad canvas which the author paints lovingly–sometimes hard-bitten, sometimes in wonderment–but always with his trademark sensitivity and respect for life.
Home
A man's haunted past and two captive orcas desperate bid for freedom collide in HOME.
Adam Svenson, adrift in prison, relives his past chasing orcas. Yet, whispers from the deep increasingly guide him toward redemption. In a sterile marine park, Persia and Tristesse, two majestic young orcas, yearn for the open sea.
Will a mystic whale's wisdom unlock Adam's freedom? Can the orcas break their chains? Captivity collides with spiritual awakening and reality bends in a Spielbergian twist.
HOME is a modern-day Moby Dick parable - a thought-provoking tale of captivity, life, death and spiritual redemption.
Salt Water Tears
This is the book that began a journey. Salt Water Tears is written around author Len Varley's first-person, eyewitness journal account of events in and around Taiji in the winter of 2010.
It is a story that seeks to balance activism and marine conservation with Japanese traditional culture and introduces the reader to an enigmatic and highly intelligent sea dweller, the dolphin.