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Leviathan or, The Whale

Philip Hoare

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#463 of 3,809 books · #33 in Science & Technology

Won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2009).

In Leviathan, the acclaimed writer Philip Hoare explores his own passion for whales and charts the troubled history of their relationship with man. He seeks to discover, on his journey from the north of England to Cape Cod - and finally into the middle of the Atlantic - exactly why these strange, beautiful, and mysterious animals still exercise such a hold on our collective imaginations.

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Publisher
HarperCollins UK
ISBN-13
9780007230143
Topics
WhalesNatural historyHuman-animal relationships

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