Kieran Mulvaney
WelcomeIn October and November 2008, I visited Churchill, Manitoba, the "polar bear capital of the world," while conducting research for my upcoming book on polar bears, to be published in 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the United States and Hutchinson in the United Kingdom.
I adapted part of the Churchill chapter of my book into an article for The Washington Post Magazine, which in September 2009 published the piece as the cover story for their Fall 2009 Travel Issue. Many thanks to David Rowell at the magazine for his great editing, and to everyone in Churchill - Lance and Irene Duncan, Robert Buchanan, Mike Spence and all the rest - who made my visit there such an enjoyable and informative one. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to return this year, but hope to do so in 2010. Click on the image of the cover to read the article online at the Washington Post website  It's Not Kieran, it's HBOIn the latest step along my improbable second career path of boxing commentator and columnist, I have recently been asked by HBO to shoot preview videos before big Las Vegas fights, alongside boxing historian, bon vivant, and buddy of mine Bert Sugar. Check out the unintentional hilarity here:
 THE BEAR FACTSI have finished the manuscript of my newest book, The Great White Bear: A Natural and Unnatural History of Polar Bears, slated for publication by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (and, as Ice Bear, by Hutchinson in the United Kingdom) in late 2010/early 2011. The book is heading into production now and I'll post updates in my blog.
Peter Mulvaney, May 19 1929-October 7 2008 My beloved father, Peter Mulvaney, died in the early hours of October 7, 2008, after a long illness. I miss him dearly. It still seems so surreal that he could possibly be gone; all my life I had a father, and suddenly I don't. I console myself with the knowledge that he is now at peace, and that his memory lives on through all those who knew and loved him. For those who may be wondering who I am and what's in this site:I am an author who has written several books and over 200 magazine articles. I've traveled to or worked in about twenty countries, and I've lived in four of them -- Britain, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United States. I've walked on all seven continents and sailed on the North and South Atlantic, North and South Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans. I've been a leader on voyages to confront Japanese whalers in the Antarctic, Norwegian whalers in the Arctic, and French driftnet fleets in the North Atlantic.
Some of my writing credits:
I'm the editor of Ocean Update, a monthly newsletter published by SeaWeb and distributed to environment and science journalists and other interested parties across the nation and around the world. I've written articles on science and environment issues for such publications as The (London) Guardian, The (London) Sunday Times Magazine, New Scientist, New Internationalist, BBC Wildlife and E Magazine, and I've been a frequent contributor to the Discovery Channel Online. I contributed chapters to the books Beyond the Bars: The Zoo Dilemma (1987), Conservation of Whales and Dolphins: Science and Practice (1996), Whale Watching (1999), Seas at the Millennium: An Environmental Assessment (2000), The Future of Cetaceans in a Changing World (2003), and Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Change (2004), and wrote the afterword for a new edition of the classic polar adventure by Admiral Richard Byrd, Alone (2003). I wrote the main text for the Greenpeace Book of Dolphins (1990), wrote the text for Witness: Twenty-Five Years on the Environmental Front Line (1996), and I'm the author of At the Ends of the Earth: A History of the Polar Regions, (Island Press, 2001) and The Whaling Season: An Inside Account of the Struggle to Stop Commercial Whaling (Island Press, 2003). To check out some of my publications, click on the link at the top of the page or check out the individual titles to the right. Visit the newsletter page to sign up for news, views, and updates. To read the full list of publications and other credits, you can view my resumé. And if you're burning to learn more about Kieran the person, click on "Biography." |
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