I'm "reading" (actually, listening - it's an IPod/running thing) to a new book by Phillip Hoare called The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea. It's both a natural history and a history - a natural history of the great animals themselves and a history of man's interactions and fascinations with them. I'll periodically have whales on the brain. Right now, we're reading about sperm whales. World's largest predator. Almost 70 feet long. Diving to depths of well over a mile - in search of giant squid. And the hero of, like it or not, the great American novel. Not a bad resume...
And,how spectacular is this?
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