Name: Leviathan, or the whale
SKU: 29815448
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Author: Philip Hoare

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Harper Collins Uk

Autor

Philip Hoare

Año

2009

N° páginas

352

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

19.8x12.9x3.5 cm

ISBN

0007230141

ISBN13

9780007230143

Leviathan, or the whale

Philip Hoare (Autor) · Harper Collins Uk · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Leviathan, or the whale"

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.