Книга: Leviathan (Hoare Philip); 4th Estate, 2009

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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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9780007230143
Автор(ы)	Hoare Philip
Вес	0.4
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2009
Жанр	нехудожественная литература
Издатель	4th Estate
Издательство	4th Estate
Кол-во страниц	454
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	454
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Тип обложки	мягкая