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

4.0

4.5 Much of it framed by Moby Dick and Herman Melville. There's still an enormous world of whales and their doomed relationship with humans in this book. The author's own narrative is sparse but beautifully written and I wished for more of it, but perhaps it was well judged. The final chapter felt like a perfect coda to this complicated history of violence and butchery.