商品簡介
Setting out to rediscover the sea, its islands, birds and beasts, the winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize travels around the world, navigating between human and natural history, between science and myth, as he searches for encounters with animals and people.
作者簡介
Philip Hoare lives and works in Southampton, England. He is the author of The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea, winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction, as well as biographies of Noel Coward, Stephen Tennant, and a study of Oscar Wilde. He is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Southampton; artist in residence at the Marine Institute, Plymouth University; and cocurator of the Moby-Dick Big Read. Follow him on Twitter at @philipwhale.
