Leviathan Or The Whale

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Leviathan Or The Whale

Author	: Philip Hoare
File Size	: 44,7 Mb
Publisher	: HarperCollins Australia
Language	: English
Release Date	: 02 May 2024
ISBN	: PSU:000067822898
Pages	: 472 pages

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Leviathan Or The Whale by Philip Hoare Book PDF Summary

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. 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.

Leviathan Or The Whale by Philip Hoare

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