(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.
no shelter from the storm in Ellen Gallagher + Edgar Clejine's Osedax, animated by cormorants and dead whales desce… t.co/vrpOhcSDNG
in Leeuwarden, life-size blue whales fall out of the sky, already illuminated as cetacean constellations to be rec… t.co/cB1U9W3P0Q
the wild wind blows over Friesland's flat land, stirring up the brown sky and the black canal; I let go and slip in t.co/njwMmoEDs3
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rattling on my bike along the herringbone paths of the old city, for a dark dip in the Noorder canal t.co/1xh3txEDba
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