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Albert And the Whale by Philip Hoare
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of Leviathan.Albrecht Dürer changed the way we saw nature through art. From his prints in 1498 of the plague ridden Apocalypse - the first works mass produced by any artist - to his hyper-real ima ...Show more
Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare
$37.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of Leviathan, or The Whale. Albrecht Dürer changed the way we saw nature through art. From his prints in 1498 of the plague ridden Apocalypse - the first works mass produced by any artist - to his ...Show more
Leviathan by Philip Hoare
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
An extraordinary journey into the underwater world of the whale -- to tie in with a BBC film-length documentary hosted also by the author. Moby Dick is a book made mythic by its whale; but the reverse is also true. After Melville published his book in 1851, no one saw whales in quite the same way again ...Show more
Leviathan by Philip Hoare
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
The 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. All his life, Philip Hoare has been obsessed by whales, from the gigantic skeletons in London's Natura ...Show more
Rising Tide Falling Star by Philip Hoare
$29.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Rich and strange from the tip of its title to its deep-sunk bones' Robert Macfarlane From the author of Leviathan, or, The Whale, comes a composite portrait of the subtle, beautiful, inspired and demented ways in which we have come to terms with our watery planet. In the third of his watery books, the a ...Show more
Rising Tide Falling Star by Philip Hoare
$29.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
From the author of Leviathan, or, The Whale, comes a composite portrait of the subtle, beautiful, inspired and demented ways in which we have come to terms with our watery planet. In the third of his watery books, the author goes in pursuit of human and animal stories of the sea. Of people enchanted or ...Show more
The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
A yearlong adventure through the world's oceans with Philip Hoare, the award-winning author of The WhaleIn colorful prose and lively line drawings, Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea and its islands, birds, and beasts. Starting at his home on the shores of Britain's Southampton Water and moving in eve ...Show more
The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare
$32.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
A startling new book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for 'Leviathan'. The sea surrounds us. It gives us life, provides us with the air we breathe and the food we eat. It is ceaseless change and constant presence. It covers two-thirds of our planet. ...Show more
Wilde's Last Stand : Scandal, Decadence and Conspiracy During the Great War by Philip Hoare
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1918, the "Vigilante" newspaper claimed that the German Secret Service held a book containing the names of 47,000 British establishment members who were sexual perverts. It was claimed Britain was losing the war because the Germans were blackmailing these figures and thereby sapping the country's str ...Show more
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