Philip Hoare is the author of several books, including 'Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant'; 'Noel Coward: A Biography'; 'Oscar Wilde's Last Stand'; 'Spike Island' and 'England's Lost Eden'. He lives in Hoxton, London, and Southampton, and each summer visits Cape Cod, where, as a member of the Center for Coastal Studies, he undertakes twice-daily expeditions to watch its whales.
A young boy's first glimpse of a whale in captivity matures into a writer's paean to the giants of the deep in this poetic blend of nautical history, literary allusion, personal experience, and natural science by British biographer Hoare (Noël Coward). With Melville as his mentor and Ishmael as his muse, the author haunts one-time whaling town New Bedford, Mass., America's richest city in the mid–19th century thanks to whale oil and baleen (whalebone); recreates the cramped life on board the whalers of 200 years ago; weaves writing about whales by Emerson and Poe into his narrative; and finally revels in face-to-fin encounters with his obsession, swimming with the whales in the Atlantic. Though Hoare rhapsodizes most about the fabled sperm whale, the world's largest predator with a history dating back 23 million years, he also describes with succinct precision other species—the beaked, blue, fin, humpback, and the killer whale, the sperm whale's only nonhuman predator. This tour de force is a sensuous biography of the great mammals that range on and under Earth's oceans.
發表於2025-02-13
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評分RT, 作者很矯情,還為自己的矯情找瞭恰如其分卻一樣矯情的托詞。 剛開始看,怎麼看都像是moby dick的讀後感! LZ對鯨魚感情深厚!差點去讀海洋生物專業啊次奧。為什麼這本書沒人看!
評分RT, 作者很矯情,還為自己的矯情找瞭恰如其分卻一樣矯情的托詞。 剛開始看,怎麼看都像是moby dick的讀後感! LZ對鯨魚感情深厚!差點去讀海洋生物專業啊次奧。為什麼這本書沒人看!
評分RT, 作者很矯情,還為自己的矯情找瞭恰如其分卻一樣矯情的托詞。 剛開始看,怎麼看都像是moby dick的讀後感! LZ對鯨魚感情深厚!差點去讀海洋生物專業啊次奧。為什麼這本書沒人看!
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The Whale 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載