A review by joelanichols
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea by Philip Hoare

2.0

kind of boring for such a fascinating subject because it's a lot of Hoare's ruminations about how magnificent and awesome whales are. But all that crap writing aside, this book is totally worth it for Hoare's steamy rehashing of Melville's totally pervy homoerotic whaling adventures and how he used them to seduce Hawthorne.