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| Subtitle | In Search of the Giants of the Sea |
| First Written | 2010 |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Origin | US |
| Publisher | Ecco |
| ISBN-10 | 0061976210 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0061976216 |
| My Copy | library hardback |
| First Read | January 28, 2011 |
The Whale
I hate to stereotype my reading like this, but I couldn't pass up a non-fiction book about whales, specifically one that leans so much on Melville.
Hoare writes a very personalized kind of non-fiction, spending as much time dealing with his emotional whale-related experiences as with any 'hard' facts. It it reads like a long, dry episode of This Cetacean Life.
Noted on February 1, 2011
As the word 'whale' evokes poetic wholeness, so 'squid' seems expresseive of fragmentary, faceless evil...
Quoted on February 1, 2011