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 A startling book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, co-curator of the Moby-Dick Big Read and winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for ‘Leviathan’.
