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Touching This Leviathan (Paperback)
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Touching This Leviathan (Paperback)
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Touching This Leviathan asks how we might come to know the
unknowable--in this case, whales, these animals so large yet so
elusive, revealing just a sliver of back, a glimpse of a fluke, or,
if you're lucky, a split-second breach before diving away. It's a
pressing question, given how frequently whales are in the news:
Japan just withdrew from the International Whaling Commission's ban
on whaling; the Makah Tribe seeks to resume hunts; in 2019 there
was a rash of dead gray whales along the west coast (some 200 of
them); in 2018, an orca attracted international attention when she
pushed her dead calf through the water 17 days before finally
letting go. But other whale books sit in disciplinary silos: the
history books, the science books, the literary books. There's no
conversation between them, which is where Touching This Leviathan
intervenes. Drawing upon biology, theology, local history, literary
studies, environmental studies, and composition theory, Touching
This Leviathan is necessarily interdisciplinary: literary
nonfiction that gestures toward science and literary criticism as
it invites readers into the belly of the whale.
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