#Philip Hoare

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Philip Hoare, "What Moby Dick Means to Me"

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Albrecht Dürer und der Wal: Wie die Kunst die Welt erschaffen hat

Buchvorstellung Vom Verlag Klett-Cotta kenne und schätzte ich bisher vor allem seine Geschichtsbücher wie Die Wikinger: Das Zeitalter des Nordens. Bildquelle: KRAUTJUNKER In letzter Zeit begeisterte ich mich auch für Titel wie Der englische Gärtner – Leben und Arbeiten im Garten, Geheime Feste – Naturbetrachtungen und Der kultivierte Gärtner: Die Welt, die Kunst und die Geschichte im…

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Marianne Faithfull photographed by Philip Hoare, 1974.

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Just finished Leviathan, or, the Whale, by Philip Hoare.

Beautiful. I love whales and I love that this made me love them more.

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My boat was ‘attacked’ by orcas too. What does this say about the sea? Violent interactions with humans off the Iberian coast have caused alarm but mystery still surrounds the apex predatorsThis past week’s new reports of orca interactions off the Iberian coast has cast new light on these apex predators. Are they annoyed with us? Or just playing? Whatever the truth, such interactions – a word most scientists prefer to the judgmental “attacks” – are nothing new.Diving in the Indian Ocean in 2017 with underwater photographer Andrew Sutton, we watched two pods of orca preying on sperm whale calves. Their attempts were defeated by adult whales who had gathered around to defend their young. The orcas then turned their attention to our 6m fishing boat, circling us, before repeatedly ramming our prow. Five of the orcas swam directly at our side, creating a compression wave as if to tip us over. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/05/my-boat-was-attacked-by-orcas-too-what-does-this-say-about-the-sea

[allez-argeiphontes]

I have just learned about the Moby Dick Big Read project from Philip Hoare and the University of Plymouth and the first chapter is making me so happy…

It has been a truly taxing week and I am trying very hard to find the joy. Terror Camp, getting tattooed in Portsmouth by the lovely Samo White, the Gibson playlist and this lovely project are things I am trying to enjoy to their fullest because the world has good in it.

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little tidbit that had me yelling OH COME ON when i learned it, BTW. moby (the musician) is like the great great nephew of herman melville. and at one point he was responsible for curating the music for starbuck's playlists.

[mariocki]

New Scotland Yard: Nothing to Live For (2.1, LWT, 1972)

"Any sign of her in there?"

"No. Odds are against it, I suppose."

"What, being there?"

"Being alive."

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Literaturkritik.de: „Das Ende des Endes der Geschichte“ Alex Hochuli, George Hoare, Philip Cunliffe

Literaturkritik.de: „Das Ende des Endes der Geschichte“ Alex Hochuli, George Hoare, Philip Cunliffe Hördauer ca. 16 Minuten) https://literaturradiohoerbahn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Literaturkritik-de-George-Hoare-ende-der-Geschichte-upload.mp3 1989 verbreitete der US-amerikanische Politikwissenschaftler Francis Fukujamas erstmals seine These vom „Ende der Geschichte“ in der Zeitschrift…

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Here’s my ever growing collection of books that are sea-themed, about ships, or have a general connection to the sea <3

Talking about each of them under the cut:

Have been collecting for a couple of years and obviii i plan to get so many more. These are mostly non-fiction.

From bottom to top:

Atlas of remote islands by Judith Schalansky. Love this book, it has beautiful illustrations about all these tiny islands lost in different oceans. Very informative and great to look at. I bought mainly for the edition but of course the content is great too.

Sharks in the time of saviours by Kawai Strong Washburn. This one’s about a Hawaiian family and their struggles, as well as some magical realism thrown in there. It’s one of my favourite books, with gorgeous writing and storytelling. Loveeeee it.

Somos agua (we are water) by Laura Madrueño. A recount of the author’s love for the ocean, how she became a marine biologist and diver, and an exploration of the sea and ecology. Really insightful and interesting.

Erebus: the story of a ship by Michael Palin. One of my most recent purchases on account of my interest in the Franklin expedition. Haven’t read it yet but the cover is so so beautiful and I’ve heard great things.

Frozen in time: the fate of the Franklin expedition by Owen Beattie and John Geiger. Another recent purchase which I haven’t read yet but I’m super excited to start.

Moby dick by Herman Melville. My absolute favourite book, and I don’t think it will ever be dethroned. It’s a comfort read, it’s beautiful, it’s insightful, it’s philosophical and fun, it has fantastic storytelling and the best writing style (imo). I can go on and on and on. I just love it so much.

The whale: in search of the giants of the sea by Philip Hoare. I bought this when I was doing research for Moby Dick and it didn’t disappoint. Lovely read that’s non fiction but with beautiful prose.

Billy Budd, Bartleby and other stories by Herman Melville. Well yeah Herman is my favourite author too so I must have all his writings. This edition has basically all his short stories except a couple if I recall correctly. Anyway more examples of his beautiful writing <3

The terror by Dan Simmons. Now listen. I got this when I had watched like 2 episodes of the show and knew nothing of the book. I saw it by chance at the bookstore and got so excited that I bought it. I haven’t read it (yet) but mayhaps in the near future… who knows. Anyway it’s there.

Moby dick by Herman Melville (again). One of my life goals is to collect all the editions I can find of this book. Peace and love on planet earth.

Whale by Paul Gadenne. A short story about a beached whale by a French author. My friend got this to me as a goodbye gift when I moved and if that doesn’t signify my love for whales and the sea, I don’t know what does.

And that is all!! If you wanna chat about these books I’m always open for a nice conversation, and if you have recs, please do send them my way!! <3

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Such stories seem to suit this infernal island, a half-formed place of fire and water; I could imagine Melville and Hawthorne meeting here. Even the cliffs on which we stand are undermined by hidden caves. Due south from here lies Antarctica. And somewhere down in the fathomless, gathering darkness, sperm whales swim, eternally aware, their lives one waking dream, moving through valleys that run thirty thousand miles along the ocean floor, through lakes that lie stilly in the abyss, separated by temperature like pools of mercury, past jellyfish pulsating as ghostly Victorian brides in ectoplasmic crinolines.

Leviathan, or The Whale, Philip Hoare

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“Other colonies were founded in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, by Timothy Folger and Samuel Starbuck, and in 1785 Starbuck, Folger and William Rotch Senior made approaches to Britain about setting up a whaling port there. Rotch and his son Benjamin travelled to London for talks with the Prime Minister, William Pitt. After lengthy negotiations–Rotch wanted £ 20,000 removal costs and naturalization for thirty ships and five hundred of his countrymen, but during the talks Rotch set up at Dunkirk, having been offered better conditions by the French–the British finally invited the Nantucketers to create a new station at Milford Haven in 1792, granting them ‘the rights and privileges of natural-born subjects’. Here, in a pre-echo of the Welsh who would settle in Patagonia, an enclave of Nantucketers was founded, complete with New England architecture, a Quaker meeting house, and a Pembrokeshire cemetery populated with Starbucks and Folgers.”

- Philip Hoare, Leviathan

…I need to add to the steampunk thing an AU where the French invitation in 1792 worked out, so there was now a weird enclave in, like, Provence populated by people with names like Starbucks and Folgers.

And maybe for one of the louche scions of the former dynasty to open a seditious coffee house with radical newspapers

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My Top 10 books of 2024 (as in ones that i read not that came out in 2024)

(in no particular order)

The well of loneliness (radclyffe hall) absolute classic for all the melancholy lesbians (me) loved it, took me like a month to read and i felt like i was living it it, it was great

The mirror and the palette (jennifer higgie) this was the second ever art history book i read and i loved it it got me well into it because all my previous experience with art history had been boring, sterile and emotionless (at least to me) i never really connected with any artists until i read this book, also read it while i was camping and that was so much fun trying to read with a half dead torch in a one man tent i can't sit up it

Albert and the whale (philip hoare) got this book from the library because i liked the cover and it was incredible, read it in a few days, it told such a story and was so tangential and rambly in a way i love, was a journey, learned many things, think about it all the time

The power (naomi alderman) got this at fopp cos i read disobedience (same author) the year before (also from fopp) and i wasnt expecting a sci-fi thing after disobedience but i loved it, read it really fast cos it was so good i was so invested the story was just like cliff-hanger, good tv type of story where its not predictable and i was genuinely gasping at the plot twists and i probably cried also

Seven steeples (sarah baume) this was kind of alarming to read (in the same sort of way as the discomfort of evening was to me but less horrifying and ruining) cos it was so similar to sort of what goes on in my head and the kind of thing i would write if one day i wrote a book so it wasnt quite as enjoyable as the prev. 4 for that reason but it was very beautiful and affecting.

Tipping the velvet (sarah waters) i read this a whole year ago now so its somewhat hard to remember but i think it was an incredible story in a similar was to the power where it was exciting and easy to read, there was a section in the book i really loved when the main character is on her own for a long while and from what i remembered i loved the ending but a couple of characters in the beginning were a little annoying

The sixth extinction (elizabeth kolbert) LOVED. read it in the summer got it from the library, it was so good, it had good story telling for a non fiction book which i like and it was about global warming but was mainly about cool ecology things in relation to global warming so it was still somehow fun to read - frogs, bats, loved the bit about geology so much im such an amateur geology nerd, coral lots of stuff hard recommend

The story of art without men (katy hessel) first art history book i read, made me study art history, i looked up introductory/overview art history books and got the story of art which i read a bit of and was immediately put off and dismayed but the complete lack of women artists (in the first edition there were 0, in later ones i think there have been a couple amongst the hoades of men) so when i saw the story of art without men i thought perfect hell yeah and it was great loved it, incredible introduction. (now i unfortunately study predominately men against my will and am forced to balance it out by reading about women in my free time)

our wives under the sea (julia armfield) loved the story definitely cried at least a couple of times but was two short for me to be that attatched to the characters. i loved that it seemed like it could be a metaphor interpreted in loads of ways but also was just great as a scifi weird thing anyway on its own. the bits in the submarine i liked a lot, more than the bits on land i think.

the outsider (camus) + metamorphosis (kafka) combining these two because theyre both very short and i read them at a similar time both in about a day and so although i loved the writing and the story of both and i think about them often, i just don't get as attached to short books and don't remember them so well. i think i will reread them both at some point though and maybe have more to say (also enough has been said about these books to fill the ocean lets be real)

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2020

‘A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature’ Philip Hoare

‘An exciting new voice’ Mark Cocker, author of Crow Country

In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family tragedy. For comfort, he turned to his bookshelves, back to the ghost stories that obsessed him as a boy, and to the writers through the ages who have attempted to confront what comes after death.

In Ghostland, Parnell goes in search of the ‘sequestered places’ of the British Isles, our lonely moors, our moss-covered cemeteries, our stark shores and our folkloric woodlands. He explores how these landscapes conjured and shaped a kaleidoscopic spectrum of literature and cinema, from the ghost stories and weird fiction of M. R. James, Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood to the children’s fantasy novels of Alan Garner and Susan Cooper; from W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn and Graham Swift’s Waterland to the archetypal ‘folk horror’ film The Wicker Man…

Ghostland is Parnell’s moving exploration of what has haunted our writers and artists – and what is haunting him. It is a unique and elegiac meditation on grief, memory and longing, and of the redemptive power of stories and nature.

https://amzn.to/3EZk2of

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Orcas are ramming yachts off the Spanish coast – is the whale world rising up? | Philip Hoare One explanation is that their behaviour is a reaction to past trauma inflicted on one member of the pod by humansRecent accounts of “attacks” on vessels by orcas off the Iberian peninsula are challenging the way we expect the natural world to behave. Increasing in number since 2020, from northern Portugal to the strait of Gibraltar, these incidents suggest the need for a cetacean scene investigation team. On 4 May, in one of the most extreme events, orcas sank a yacht.“There were two smaller orcas and one larger,” the skipper Werner Schaufelberger told German magazine Yacht. “The little ones shook the rudder at the back while the big one repeatedly backed up and rammed the boat with full force from the side.” Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/25/orcas-ramming-yachts-spanish-whale-behaviour-trauma-humans

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Books Read/Reread, July/August 2024

Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees* Kenneth Silverman, The Life and Times of Cotton Mather Karl Ove Knausgaard, So Much Longing In So Little Space Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound Stacey D'Erasmo, The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room* Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway* Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse* Elisa Gabbert, Any Person Is the Only Self Sara Gran, Come Closer* Cassandra Shaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth Kathleen Jamie, Sightlines Christiane Ritter, A Woman in the Polar Night* Mary Oliver, Upstream Remedios Varo, On Homo Rodans and Other Writings Patricia J. Williams, The Miracle of the Black Leg: Notes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Spirit of the Law Monica Black, A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany* Jon Greenaway, Capitalism: A Horror Story Philip Hoare, The Sea Inside Barry Lopez, About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History Leonard F. Guttridge, Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition * = reread