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The whale is the largest, loudest, oldest animal ever to have existed. It is improbable, amazing, and--as anyone who has seen an underwater documentary or visited the display at the American Museum of Natural History can attest--a powerful source of wonder and delight to millions. The Whale is an extraordinary journey into the world of this fascinating and mysterious animal. Acclaimed writer Philip Hoare visits the historic whale-hunting towns...

»Albrecht Dürer und der Wal wird Sie mitreißen wie die Flut.«  John Williams, New York Times Dürer hat einen künstlerischen Kosmos hinterlassen. Was es heißt, die Wirklichkeit in ihrer Fülle und Tiefe anzuschauen, zu erfassen und zu verstehen, scheint in Dürers Kunstwerken bis heute auf. Hypermodern erschien der berühmteste Künstler Nordeuropas seinen Zeitgenossen, absolut modern ist Albrecht Dürer auch heute noch. 1520 segelte Albrecht ...

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An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of The Whale. In 1520, Albrecht Dürer, the most celebrated artist in Northern Europe, sailed to Zeeland to see a whale. A central figure of the Renaissance, no one had painted or drawn the world like him. Dürer drew hares and rhinoceroses in the way he painted saints and madonnas. The wing of a bird or the wing of an angel, a spider cra...

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022 'This is a wonderful book. A lyrical journey into the natural and unnatural world' Patti Smith

An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of The Whale.In 1520, Albrecht Dürer, the most celebrated artist in Northern Europe, sailed to Zeeland to see a whale. A central figure of the Renaissance, no one had painted or drawn the world like him. Dürer drew hares and rhinoceroses in the way he painted saints and madonnas. The wing of a bird or the wing of an angel, a spider crab ...

An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of Leviathan, or The Whale.

>Moby-Dick< ist ein Buch, das durch seinen Wal legendär wurde - aber umgekehrt wird ebenfalls ein Schuh draus: Seit der Roman von Herman Melville 1851 veröffentlicht wurde, hat man Wale mit anderen Augen gesehen. Aus einem bereits legendären, mythischen Tier schuf Melville einen modernen Mythos. Philip Hoare, seit jeher fasziniert von Walen, versucht in >Leviathan< seiner Besessenheit auf den Grund zu gehen. Warum haben Wale eine so starke Anz...

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The story of Netley in Southampton - its hospital, its people and the secret history of the 20th-century. Now with a new afterword uncovering astonishing evidence of Netley's links with Porton Down & experiments with LSD in the 1950s.

Hoare brings readers on a journey in pursuit of human and animal stories of the sea. Along the way, he encounters drowned poets and eccentric artists, modernist writers and era-defining performers, wild utopians and national heroes famous or infamous, who are all surprisingly, and sometimes fatally, linked to the sea."--Provided by publisher

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The author of "Leviathan, or, The Whale" paints a composite portrait of humanity's scientific, historical and artistic attempts to understand a watery planet from our separated position on land.

Wilde's Last Stand tells of transvestites in the trenches, of drug clubs in London, and of Oscar Wilde in a bitter battle to maintain his reputation. Revealing and chilling, this is a vital story about the birth of a troubled century.

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The latest book from the author of "Leviathan", which won the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize, this sets out to rediscover the sea, its islands, birds and beasts. Ranges from England to the Isle of Wight, the Azores, Sri Lanka, Tasmania and New Zealand. 'As bracing as a great blustery lungful of ozone-filled air...' Rachel Campbell-Johnston, "The Times