THE WHALE: IN SEARCH OF THE GIANTS OF THE SEA By Philip Hoare ECCO, 27.99, 464 pages, illustrated REVIEWED BY EMILY COLETTE WILKINSON ’’Ah the world, oh the whale!” Like Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick,” ...

A subject as big as the whale demands a book as broad as “The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea.” Part memoir, part nature writing and part literary criticism, the book takes readers around ...

I took a while to read Fathoms: The World in the Whale, the debut of Australian writer Rebecca Giggs. Owing that its European publication date was pushed back due to the disparate realities of ...

“The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea” (HarperCollins, 453 pages, $27.99), by Philip Hoare: A subject as big as the whale demands a book as broad as “The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the ...

Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems, a new book from the University of California Press (December 2006), explores an aspect of whale ecology that until now has received surprisingly little attention ...

This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. In Joyce Wan’s 2015 picture book, The ...

“Moby-Dick” is often viewed as a singularly American creation. Part of the beguiling genius of “The Whale,” a rhapsodic meditation on all things cetacean, is that Philip Hoare so suggestively explores ...

IRVINE – Alexandra Uhl has loved a lot of books in her 24 years as the owner of A Whale of a Tale Children’s Bookshoppe. But there’s only one that sums up how she’s feeling this week. The story is ...

Light House Charter School science teacher Peter Trull is now an author of international renown. He’s published a couple of books before; ‘A Guide to the Common Birds of Cape Cod’, ‘Coyotes I the ...

Benji Davies’ “Storm Whale” children’s books are getting an animated adaptation from Lupus Films, the studio behind the adaptation of Judith Kerr’s “The Tiger Who Came to Tea.” Lupus are working on a ...