(Fourth Estate / Atico de los Libros, Spain / Mare Verlag, Germany / Einuadi, Italy; The Whale, Ecco USA).
Winner of 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. A gripping voyage of discovery into the heart of an obsession.
‘Philip Hoare was long been acclaimed as a brilliantly unconventional writer … This is the book he was born to write, a classic of its kind’, Rachel Cooke, The Observer.
1 am: swimming under a ferocious moon, carried away by the swollen spring tide; the sea knows more than me
1.30 am: a smeary night to be in the sea, shadows of waves against the sky as I bob in the spring tide