Over 10 mio. titler Fri fragt ved køb over 499,- Hurtig levering Forlænget returret til 31/01/25

Leviathan

- Or the Whale

  • Format
  • Lydbog, download
  • Engelsk

Beskrivelse

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.

Læs hele beskrivelsen
Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Udgivelsesdato29-04-2021
  • ISBN139780008470562
  • Forlag Harpercollins Publishers
  • MålgruppeGeneral
  • FormatLydbog download

Findes i disse kategorier...

Se andre, der handler om...

Machine Name: SAXO080