![]() “The big difference was that Bob’s stories were funny,” Don recalls, “interesting, and more to the point. He recounts their mother telling long, rambling stories and how Bob acquired the art of the raconteur. The epigram from the family crest, “ Cursum perficio,” or “journey complete,” implies “I accomplish my purpose.” Bob’s brother Don tells of their father who one day stopped coming home, their modest childhood on the Manitoba prairies raised by their French-Canadian mother, Augustine Bernadette, and of Bob reading the newspaper to his mother after she lost her sight. ![]() Myron MacDonald traces Hunter’s family heritage to the Hunterston forests of Scotland, west of Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde. A picture emerges of a man who deeply touched people’s hearts, inspired commitment, helped give birth to the modern ecology movement, and did it all with extraordinary humility and humour. ![]() Scores of campaign and media colleagues contribute accounts of his life. ![]() The book was edited by Bob’s wife, 1970s Greenpeace organizer Bobbi Hunter. Mindbomb is a biography of Greenpeace co-founder Robert Lorne Hunter (1941-2005), told by his friends and family. ![]()
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