{"product_id":"fathoms-the-world-in-the-whale-by-rebecca-giggs","title":"FATHOMS: THE WORLD IN THE WHALE BY REBECCA GIGGS","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction * Finalist for the PEN\/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA “delving, haunted, and poetic debut” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e) about the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about ourselves, our planet, and our relationship with other species.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australia, she began to wonder how the lives of whales reflect the condition of our oceans. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFathoms: The World in the Whale\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is “a work of bright and careful genius” (Robert Moor, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOn Trails\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), one that blends natural history, philosophy, and science to explore: How do whales experience ecological change? How has whale culture been both understood and changed by human technology? What can observing whales teach us about the complexity, splendor, and fragility of life on earth?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFathoms\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, we learn about whales so rare they have never been named, whale songs that sweep across hemispheres in annual waves of popularity, and whales that have modified the chemical composition of our planet’s atmosphere. We travel to Japan to board the ships that hunt whales and delve into the deepest seas to discover how plastic pollution pervades our earth’s undersea environment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the immediacy of Rachel Carson and the lush prose of Annie Dillard, Giggs gives us a “masterly” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) exploration of the natural world even as she addresses what it means to write about nature at a time of environmental crisis. With depth and clarity, she outlines the challenges we face as we attempt to understand the perspectives of other living beings, and our own place on an evolving planet. Evocative and inspiring, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFathoms\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “immediately earns its place in the pantheon of classics of the new golden age of environmental writing” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePAPERBACK BOOK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GamesandStuff.com","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":46624764100854,"sku":"9781982120702","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3303\/7465\/files\/41Fpo73QYZL._SY445_SX342.jpg?v=1759884591","url":"https:\/\/www.gamesandstuffonline.com\/products\/fathoms-the-world-in-the-whale-by-rebecca-giggs","provider":"Games and Stuff","version":"1.0","type":"link"}