A review by kdraw333
Leviathan: Or, The Whale by Philip Hoare

5.0

This is an amazing, rich and heartfelt exploration of our troubled relationship with a mysterious, sentient and highly emotionally-intelligent species that lives in an alien world beneath us. I didn't really pay much attention to whales before reading this. I knew people wanted to save them from extinction, that hippies listened to their songs, etc. but it didn't really hit home how we are such brutal little gnats killing off these gentle giants when we understand so little about them. I wonder if our relationship to sentient animals will change the more we study our own consciousness and appreciate different ways of evolving and being.