Eyes of Fire: the Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior

by David Robie

On 10 July 1985, French secret agents bombed the Greenpeace campaign flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand. Portuguese-born photographer Fernando Pereira died in the sabotage outrage that shook the world. The bombed ship was scuttled off a New Zealand bay in 1987 to form a living reef and Rainbow Warrior II was commissioned. In 1996, France ended nuclear tests in Polynesia after further Greenpeace and Pacific protests. This redesigned and revised new "memorial edition" of the original 1986 book contains new material and additional pictures about American and French nuclear testing in the Pacific.

180 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’ve given this four stars because I quite enjoyed this book. I think that had more to do with the subject matter than the actual writing. I mean, the writing was fine, I just found this book to be written in that slightly odd way that newspaper articles are often written. But the subject matter could be turned into a truly fascinating book. I basically had no knowledge of what happened at all, the Rainbow Warrior, nuclear testing in the Pacific, Greenpeace as an organization, so this was all new to me, and really rather blew my mind! Hence the high star count.

[Carole · Rating 3 out of 5]

An account of the French bombing of the vessel "Rainbow Warrior" when it was seeking to call attention to the plight of Pacific Islanders suffering from French and U.S. nuclear testing in the Pacific. Sometimes I am ashamed to be an American.