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- Touching This Leviathan
- Book
- 2021
- Published by: Oregon State University Press
summary
Touching This Leviathan asks how we might come to know the unknowable—in this case, whales, animals so large yet so elusive, revealing just a sliver of back, a glimpse of a fluke, or a split-second breach before diving away.
Whale books often sit within disciplinary silos. Touching This Leviathan starts a conversation among them. Drawing on biology, theology, natural history, literature, and writing studies, Peter Wayne Moe offers a deep dive into the alluring and impalpable mysteries of Earth’s largest mammal.
Entertaining, thought-provoking, and swimming with intelligence and wit, Touching is Leviathan is creative nonfiction that gestures toward science and literary criticism as it invites readers into the belly of the whale.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
- pp. i-viii
- 1 Knowing Beans
- pp. 1-17
- 2. From a Distance
- pp. 18-34
- Interlude. Sightings
- pp. 35-42
- Three. A Heap of Stones
- pp. 43-57
- Four. An Inheritance
- pp. 58-76
- Interlude. Extracts
- pp. 77-92
- Five. Within
- pp. 93-110
- Six. To Flense
- pp. 111-126
- On Advocacy
- pp. 127-128
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 129-132
- Works Cited
- pp. 147-154
Additional Information
ISBN
9780870713101
Related ISBN(s)
9780870713071
MARC Record
OCLC
1251765035
Pages
166
Launched on MUSE
2021-12-14
Language
English
Open Access
No