{"product_id":"hoare-philip-leviathan-9780007230143","title":"Leviathan","description":"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 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. In '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. This 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.","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":53552325296470,"sku":"9780007230143-V","price":5.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53255954661718,"sku":"9780007230143-G","price":3.59,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780007230143_1_074c96fc-a7c0-4346-b23d-306501335a13.jpg?v=1781216663","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/hoare-philip-leviathan-9780007230143","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}