Leviathan (Paperback)

The story of a man’s obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey – from his childhood to his fascination with Moby-Dick and his excursions whale-watching. All his life, Philip Hoare has been obsessed by whales, from the gigantic skeletons in London’s Natural History Museum to adult encounters with the wild animals themselves. Whales have a mythical quality – they seem to elide with dark fantasies of sea-serpents and antediluvian monsters that swim in our collective unconscious. In ‘Leviathan’, Philip Hoare seeks to locate and identify this obsession. What impelled Melville to write ‘Moby-Dick’? After his book in 1851, no one saw whales in quite the same way again. This book is an investigation into what we know little about – dark, shadowy creatures who swim below the depths, only to surface in a spray of spume. More than the story of the whale, it is also the story of our own obsessions.

General

Imprint:	Fourth Estate
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2009
Authors:	Philip Hoare
Dimensions:	197 x 128 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	453
ISBN-13:	978-0-00-723014-3
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Popular science Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Wild animals > General
LSN:	0-00-723014-1
Barcode:	9780007230143

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