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The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
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Author
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Philip Hoare.
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Publisher
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Ecco
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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8.75
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5.5
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1.5
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ISBN
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9780061976216
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Pages/Publication Date
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454/2010
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Daedalus Item Code
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22327
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This item is not available.
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Description
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(Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction) From his childhood fascination with the gigantic Natural History Museum model of a blue whale to his adult encounters with the living animals in the Atlantic Ocean, Philip Hoare has been obsessed with whales. Journeying through human and natural history, this book is the result of his voyage of discovery into the heart of this obsession and the book that inspired it: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Following in Ishmael's footsteps, Hoare explores the troubled history of man and whale; visits the historic whaling locales of New Bedford, Nantucket, and the Azores; and traces the whale's cultural history from Jonah to Free Willy.
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