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Название: Leviathan

Автор: Philip Hoare

Издательство: HarperCollins

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isbn: 9780007340910

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      LEVIATHAN

      or,

       The Whale

      

      

      Philip Hoare

      

      

      

Copyright

      Fourth Estate

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain in 2008 by Fourth Estate

      Copyright © Philip Hoare 2008

      

      Philip Hoare asserts the moral right o be identified as the author of this work

      

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      

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      Source ISBN: 9780007230143

      Ebook Edition © AUGUST 2009 ISBN: 9780007340910 Version: 2017-01-04

       For Theresa

       Contents

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Prologue

       I Soundings

       II The Passage Out

       III The Sperm Whale

       IV A Filthy Enactment

       V Far Away Land

       VI Sealed Orders

       VII The Divine Magnet

       VIII Very Like a Whale

       IX The Correct Use of Whales

       X The Whiteness of the Whale

       XI The Melancholy Whale

       XII A Cold War for the Whale

       XIII The Whale Watch

       XIV The Ends of the Earth

       XV The Chase

       Keep Reading

       Bibliography

       Picture Credits

       Acknowledgements

       Index

       Also by Philip Hoare

       About the Publisher

      There Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretch’d like a promontory sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land; and at his gills Draws in, and at his breath spouts out a sea.

       John Milton, Paradise Lost, quoted in title page to the first, English edition of Moby-Dick

       Prologue

      For thou didst cast me into the deep,

      Into the heart of the seas, And the flood was СКАЧАТЬ