Leviathan: Or The Whale

di Philip Hoare (Autore)

Philip Pope (Narratore)

Fourth Estate, 2021

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. In Leviathan, Hoare's obsession with whales takes us on a journey that is both personal and universal, making it a top pick for readers. His narrative is a best-in-class exploration of the human psyche, using his fascination with whales as a metaphor for our own obsessions. For fans of Ed Yong (I Contain Multitudes), Truman Capote (Portraits and Observations), Thomas Halliday (Otherlands), Jonathan Miles (The Nine Lives of Otto Katz), and Wallace J. Nichols (Surviving the Shark).

• Autore: Philip Hoare
• Narratore: Philip Pope
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 12:10:21
• Anno edizione: 2021
• Editore: Fourth Estate
• EAN: 9780008470562

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