{"product_id":"9780007230143","title":"Leviathan","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Philip Hoare\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePopular science\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 11 June 2009 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 352 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 133 x 35mm | 402g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philip Hoare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57391117435205,"sku":"9780007230143","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780007230143.jpg?v=1773517389","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780007230143","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}