The Sea Inside
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.86 (795 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1612193595 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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When Hoare sets out on a journey to rediscover the sea, he also meditates on the past, on the whales, birds, and other animals he encounters and on the people who had been there before him. From there he travels to the Azores (the azure sea), where he dives with dolphins and sperm whales, then to Sri Lanka (the sea of serendipity) and an encounter with the sleek sensuality of the world’s largest animal, the blue whale. --Nancy Bent . Literary history and natural history entwine so seamlessly in Hoare’s narrative that the barrier between readers and the sea within all of us blurs and disappears. Starting out in Southampton Water, his own “suburban sea,” he radiates out to the Isle of Wight (his white sea) and London with its underground rivers (the i
Sebald, but in a voice all Hoare’s own, The Sea Inside is bursting with an endless series of delights and revelations from the ever-changing sea.. A yearlong adventure through the world’s oceans with Philip Hoare, the award-winning author of The WhaleIn colorful prose and lively line drawings, Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea and its islands, birds, and beasts. Starting at his home on the shores of Britain’s Southampton Water and moving in ever widening circles—like the migration patterns of whales—Hoare explores London, the Isle of Wight, the Azores, Sri Lanka, Tasmania, and New Zealand.As Hoare brilliantly weaves together literary and
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. 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. Philip Hoare lives and works in Southampton, England. .
"The Sea and Me: The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare" according to John Gullett. "The Sea Inside" is a personal essay of oceanic scope with a naturalist, environmentalist focus reported from many far corners of the world's Seas. The Author explores both the relation of mankind and his personal relation with the many species of cetaceans he has visited (and in . A Thoughtful, Moving Meditation on our Relationship with the Sea. The Book Witch We are 50% water - `we all contain the sea inside us' - and evolution shows that life on earth originally crawled out of the sea. But there is a theory that human beings may have emerged out of the ocean more recently than other life-forms. We still have vestigial webbed feet and . I hate when I have to trudge through to get to the "Good Stuff" Evil Eye I just couldn't get past the birds. I found myself 100+ pages in and the Philip was going overboard about the crows. I just couldn't take it The Sea Inside is written very well, it flows nicely but I couldn't figure out when the "good stuff" (mostly what I believe to be about the