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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 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.

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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Natural history Wildlife: general interest

• Full title: Leviathan
• Author: Philip Hoare
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9780007230143
• ISBN: 0007230141
• ID: 04004113
• Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
• Weight: 410 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 133 × 35 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. June 2009

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