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Mark J. Palmer (510) 859-9139 or (530) 758-6022

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The star of the Academy Award®–winning documentary, The Cove, returns with a new edition of Behind the Dolphin Smile.

In March 2010, The Cove went on to win the Oscar® for Best Documentary. The film showcased long-time activist Richard O’Barry’s work to free dolphins from captivity and slaughter in an isolated cove on the coast of Japan, and inspired a new generation to continue the fight against dolphin captivity. In Behind the Dolphin Smile, Richard O’Barry shares his experience with dolphins in this captivating autobiographical look back at his years as a dolphin trainer for aquatic theme parks, movies, and television. It chronicles what led O’Barry to change his perspective on the treatment of dolphins and begin a campaign against dolphin captivity that has spanned decades. O’Barry’s first arrest in the 1970s for trying to free a caged dolphin in the Bahamas eventually led to his starring role in the 2010 Academy Award®–winning documentary, The Cove, which exposed to the world Japan’s horrific annual dolphin slaughter. Included in this new edition is a preface on O’Barry’s role in this riveting documentary, which has garnered more awards than any other in its genre, as well as information on his campaigns to stop the slaughter of dolphins. O’Barry’s new edition

Behind the Dolphin Smile: One Man’s Campaign to Protect the World’s Dolphins By Richard O’Barry with Keith Coulbourn Foreword by Susan Casey ISBN: 978-1-60887-105-6 Paperback | $15.99 | 328 pages Published by Earth Aware Editions  

 

 

of Behind the Dolphin Smile serves as a platform to inform new generations on the international plight of dolphins and inspire those willing to join the cause. Share and rejoice in O’Barry’s adventures, from Flipper to The Cove, and discover how the one-time pride of the billion-dollar captivity industry became the tireless dolphin advocate we know and love today.

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"Though Behind the Dolphin Smile succeeds on many levels—as a biography, an adventure tale, a dolphin primer, a wonderful, page-turning narrative—at heart it is

something more than all of them. This, it seems to me, is a love story." —Susan Casey, from the Foreword

________ Richard O’Barry is the founder of Dolphin Project, Inc. and director of Earth Island Institute’s Save Japan Dolphins campaign. He is a world-renowned advocate for dolphin freedom. He starred in the Academy Award®–winning documentary, The Cove, and in his son Lincoln O’Barry’s television series, Blood Dolphin$, on Animal Planet and Planet Green. He lives in South Miami, Florida. Keith Coulbourn is a mystery writer and former newspaper journalist. He lives in Miami, Florida. Susan Casey is the author of the New York Times best sellers The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean and The Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks. She lives in New York City and Maui.

________ About Dolphin Project, Inc. Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project is a campaign under the International Marine Mammal Project at the non-profit Earth Island Institute. The Dolphin Project aims to stop dolphin slaughter and exploitation around the world. This work has been chronicled in films such as A Fall From Freedom, the Oscar®-winning documentary, The Cove, and in the Animal Planet and Planet Green mini-series, Blood Dolphin$. A portion of the proceeds from the sales of this book will go to Richard O’Barry’s Dolphin Project of the non-profit Earth Island Institute, www.dolphinproject.org. Behind the Dolphin Smile can be ordered online, through your local bookseller, through EcoJoia at www.ecojoia.com, or through Earth Aware Editions at www.mandalaeartheditions.com. It is also available as an ebook for the Kindle, Nook, and iPad.