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Leviathan : or, the whale / Philip Hoare

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Fourth Estate, [2009]Description: 453 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780007230143
  • 9780007230143
Other title:
  • Whale
Subject(s): Summary: 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 stories of our own obsessions
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Winner of the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction

Includes bibliographical references and index

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 stories of our own obsessions

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