Leviathan

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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 LondonaEURO (TM)s Natural History Museum to adult encounters with the wild animals themselves. Whales have a mythical quality aEURO" they seem to elide with dark fantasies of sea-serpents and antediluvian monsters that swim in our collective unconscious.

In aEURO~LeviathanaEURO (TM), Philip Hoare seeks to locate and identify this obsession. What impelled Melville to write aEURO~Moby-DickaEURO (TM)? 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 aEURO" 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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780007230143
Published: June 2009

Number of pages: 352
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 34 mm

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers