(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.
A slithery challenge to our bipedal hubris: Octlantis: the underwater city built by octopuses | The Guardian t.co/iMOr7b6R66
An epic adventure of discovery around Torbay: scenes from #TaleTorbay @situationsUK photographed by Martin Rosenbau… t.co/1a6KeOmZ1n
‘I was always a mad comet....a dark star', Wilfred Owen to Siegfried Sassoon @drjanepotter #RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR… t.co/9f4QUyJpju