TY - BOOK AU - Winton,Tim TI - Shallows SN - 0868618004 (pbk.) : AV - PR8279.I57 S4 1985 U1 - A823/.3 19 PY - 1985/// CY - Sydney PB - Unwin Paperbacks KW - Whaling KW - Western Australia KW - Fiction KW - Women environmentalists KW - Detective and mystery stories, Australian KW - fast KW - Wildlife conservation KW - Australian fiction KW - 20th century KW - Australia KW - Australiana N1 - First published in hard cover: Sydney : George Allen & Unwin, 1984 N2 - Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passing defines the rhythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begins on the beaches outside the town, and when Queenie Cookson, a local girl, joins the Greenies to make amends for the crimes of her whaling ancestors, it can only throw everything into chaos ER -