{"product_id":"9780007230143_leviathan","title":"Leviathan","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe story of a man’s obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey – from his childhood to his fascination with Moby-Dick and his excursions whale-watching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll his life, Philip Hoare has been obsessed by whales, from the gigantic skeletons in London’s Natural History Museum to adult encounters with the wild animals themselves. Whales have a mythical quality – they seem to elide with dark fantasies of sea-serpents and antediluvian monsters that swim in our collective unconscious.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn ‘Leviathan’, Philip Hoare seeks to locate and identify this obsession. What impelled Melville to write ‘Moby-Dick’? After his book in 1851, no one saw whales in quite the same way again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is an investigation into what we know little about – dark, shadowy creatures who swim below the depths, only to surface in a spray of spume. More than the story of the whale, it is also the story of our own obsessions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philip Hoare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46895329050773,"sku":"9780007230143","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007230143_238ab841-94b8-48a3-a87e-8154f0aae68c.jpg?v=1776888574","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007230143_leviathan","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}