From his childhood fascination together with the gigantic Natural History Museum model of a blue whale to his adult encounters together with the living animals in the Atlantic Ocean, the acclaimed writer Philip Hoare has been obsessed together with whales. Journeying throughout human and natural history, The Whale is the outcome of his voyage of discovery into the ...
Everything you never knew concerning sushi—its surprising origins, the colorful lives of its chefs, the bizarre behavior of the creatures this compose it—is revealed in this entertaining documentary account by the author of the highly acclaimed The Secret Life of Lobsters.
When a twenty-year-old woman arrives at America's first ...
In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and an eccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Trevor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, throughout danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning currents of the Gulf of Maine to study concerning the secret undersea lives of lobsters.