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From his childhood fascination with the gigantic Natural History Museum model of a blue whale to his adult encounters with the living animals in the Atlantic Ocean, the acclaimed writer Philip Hoare has been obsessed with whales. Journeying through human and nat-ural history, The Whale is... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Ishmael: Add a description of this character.
- Hawthorne
- William Scoresby
- Thoreau
- Moby Dick
- Ahab
- Malcolm
- Frederick Douglass
- Physeter
- Alderson
- Herman
- Hal Whitehead
- Haley
- Huston
- Owen Chase
- Charles Nordhoff
- Sidney Harmer
- Frederick Bennett
- Evert Duyckinck
- Redburn
- Billy Budd
- Wilson
- Percy Stammwitz
Setting & Locations edit
- New Bedford
- London
- America
- Nantucket
- New York
- Britain
- New England
- Whitby
- North Atlantic
- Provincetown
- Norway
- North Pacific
- Manhattan
- Europe
- Greenland
- Southampton
- Acushnet
- Southern Ocean
- Japan
- White Whale
- South Seas
- Australia
- South Georgia
- João
- Ireland
- Concord
- Boston
- Hull
- Tunstall
- Massachusetts
- South Africa
- Alaska
- North Sea
- New Zealand
Awards edit
- Amazon Best of the Month (February 2010, #9)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 599.5
Subjects edit
- Books › Science › Nature & Ecology › Oceans & Seas › Marine Life
- Books › Science › Biological Sciences › Zoology › Mammals
- Books › Science › Biological Sciences › Animals › Mammals
- Books › Outdoors & Nature › Reference
- Books › Outdoors & Nature › Ecology
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