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Item Details
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LEVIATHAN
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| By: |
Philip Hoare |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£14.99 |
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£10.94 |
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£4.05 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0007230141 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780007230143 |
| Availability: |
Last available stock.
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Currently 4 available |
| Publisher: |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS |
| Pub. date: |
11 June, 2009 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Fourth Estate Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Winner of BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2009 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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