The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
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Winner of the prestigious BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, The Whale is an unforgettable and often moving attempt to explain why these strange and beautiful animals still exert such a powerful hold on our imagination. Journeying through human and natural history, The Whale is the result of his voyage of discovery into the heart of this obsession and the book that inspired it: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
Taking us deep into their domain, Hoare shows us these mysterious creatures as they have never been seen before. Following in Ishmael's footsteps, he explores the troubled history of man and whale; visits the historic whaling locales of New Bedford, Nantucket, and the Azores; and traces the whale's cultural history from Jonah to Free Willy. From his childhood fascination with the gigantic Natural History Museum model of a blue whale to his adult encounters with the living animals in the Atlantic Ocean, the acclaimed writer Philip Hoare has been obsessed with whales.
The result is a deeply moving and thought-provoking biography of the planet’s toughest, yet most vulnerable of prehistoric survivors. Similar to Melville, Hoare has captured a wide range of historical and scientific facts about whales, but has chosen to present them through an extremely powerful instrument--the literary imagination. The Whale takes us well beyond the limits of what we can see, hear or otherwise objectively "know" about whales, and offers a much more vivid sense of their true magnitude. Hoare's admitted mania for whales led him to write Leviathan, or the Whale—which was awarded the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize, Britain’s most prestigious award for nonfiction. --Lauren Nemroff Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010: After reading Moby Dick, author Philip Hoare was so captivated by the subject that he spent years trying to fathom the planet’s most enormous and enigmatic of creatures. The book has finally migrated to this side of the Atlantic under a new title, The Whale. Hoare is not a scientist, but rather a biographer whose subjects have tended toward highbrow figures like Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde. In approaching cetaceans, the author’s non-scientific background works to great advantage.
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Product Info
- Author
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Dewey Decimal Number
- 599.5
- EAN
- 9780061976216
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN
- 9780061976216
- Label
- Ecco
- Manufacturer
- Ecco
- Number Of Items
- 1
- Number Of Pages
- 464
- Product Group
- Book
- Product Type Name
- ABIS_BOOK
- Publication Date
- 2010-02-01
- Publisher
- Ecco
- Release Date
- 2010-02-02
- Studio
- Ecco
- Title
- The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
- ASIN
- 0061976210
- Sales Rank
- 244957
- Provider
- Amazon
- As of
- February 10, 2012, 10:48 am
