Philip Hoare

La obsesión de Philip Hoare por las ballenas empezó con una maqueta gigante de una ballena azul que vio de niño en el Museo de Historia Natural de Londres. Como adulto, ha ido al encuentro de las ballenas en libertad en las aguas del Atlantico. Leviatan o la ballena es el resultado de una vida dedicada a estudiar a esos titanes de las profundidades y a intentar comprender el secreto de la fascinacion que ejercen sobre nosotros.Adentrandose en los dominios de estas misteriosas criaturas, Hoare nos las muestra como nunca antes las hemos visto. El autor explora la tormentosa relacion del hombre con las ballenas, visita legendarias zonas balleneras como New Bedford, Nantucket y las Azores, y traza una historia cultural de la ballena que va desde Jonas hasta Liberad a Willy y pasa por la obra de escritores como Hawthorne, Thoreau o, sobre todo, Herman Melville y su Moby Dick. Leviatan o la ballena ha ganado el prestigioso premio BBC Samuel Johnson al mejor libro de No Ficcion y se ha convertido en un best seller en Reino Unido. Este ensayo es una autentica joya que combina historia, biologia y literatura con un estilo tan cautivador que su embrujo perdurara en el lector mucho despues de haberlo terminado.

Una exploración del hechizo del mar y del arte.Del autor de Leviatán o la ballena y El mar interior, llega un maravilloso retrato compuesto por las sutiles, hermosas, inspiradas y enloquecedoras maneras en que el ser humano se ha relacionado con el planeta del agua.En el deslumbrante cierre de su trilogia sobre el mar, Hoare parte de nuevo en un viaje en busca de las historias humanas y animales del mar, desde las personas empujadas a la desesperacion, a ballenas, gaviotas y espiritus de las aguas: esta es una odisea personal y literaria que nos llevara desde los suburbios de Londres hasta las costas europeas y del Atlantico. Desfilan por sus paginas William Shakespeare, Henry David Thoreau, Wilfred Owen, Jack London, Herman Melville, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Virginia Woolf, Percy Bysse Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, el almirante Nelson, David Bowie, Stanley Kubrick y muchos otros poetas y artistas, escritores modernistas y heroes famosos o desconocidos, todos ellos relacionados con el mar, a veces de manera fatal y hermosa."Mitad historia cultural y mitad vibrante narracion de su relacion con el mar [] Philip Hoare ha escrito un libro maravilloso que es una delicia leer."The Sunday Times"Hoare escribe sobre Shelley, Byron y Elizabeth Barrett Browning [] Poetas del mar en manos de un poeta del mar."The Literary Review"Una historia idiosincratica de marineros, aventureros y artistas que evoca la majestuosidad del horizonte marino [] Es una obra maestra que se eleva al nivel de poesia sublime."The Times"Rara vez he leido un libro que me haya hablado tan directa e intimamente a mi."The Guardian"Un libro extraño y maravilloso."Robert Macfarlane

El mar nos rodea. Nos da vida, nos proporciona el aire que respiramos y la comida que ingerimos. Es el origen de nuestra existencia y el que transporta nuestro comercio. Representa el hogar y la migracion, es cambio incesante y presencia constante. Ocupa dos terceras partes de nuestro planeta. Y a pesar de estar presente en nuestras vidas diarias, apenas le damos importancia.En El mar interior, Philip Hoare nos propone redescubrir el mar, sus islas, aves y bestias. Nos situa en la costa sur donde crecio, un lugar de recuerdos familiares donde la soledad todavia perdura y el oceano proporciona una via de escape. Desde alli viaja al otro extremo del mundo, desde la isla de Wight a las Azores, desde Sri Lanka a Tasmania y Nueva Zelanda, en busca de encuentros con animales y personas la contraposicion de lo salvaje y lo civilizado, lo vivo y lo extinguido. Navegando entre la historia humana y natural, entre la ciencia y el mito, Hoare se cuestiona que significan sus historias para nosotros ahora, en el siglo veintiuno, cuando el mar nunca ha sido importante para nuestro presente, pasado o futuro. Por el camino conoceremos a personajes espectaculares, desde cientificos y artistas excentricos hasta guerreros tatuados, pasando por cuervos, ballenas y bizarras criaturas que podrian, o no, haberse extinguido. En parte memoir, en parte guia de viajes fantastica, El mar interior nos acompaña en un asombroso viaje de descubrimiento, repleta de asombrosas historias sobre la fe y el miedo, la tierra y la destruccion, la mortalidad y la belleza. Pero sobre todo es una historia sobre la naturaleza y el mar que todos llevamos dentro.

De niño a Philip Hoare le fascinaban las maquetas gigantes de ballenas del museo de Historia Natural, y como adulto fue al encuentro de esos magníficos animales, que se convirtieron en una obsesión para el. A caballo entre la historia, la literatura y la historia natural, "Leviatan" es un fantastico viaje de descubrimiento de esa obsesion y del libro que la inspiro: "Moby Dick"

Philip Hoare se embarca en la aventura de investigar la revolución espiritual, que en ocasiones roza la locura, que dio a luz a la novela y la pintura victorianas. Se trata de una nueva fe que celebra el antiguo poder del bosque y la naturaleza. Hoare consigue dibujar un magistral retrato de la Inglaterra del siglo XIX, sumida en una cruzada utopica.

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year that Sir Ian McKellen called a shocking tale of heroes and villainsilluminating and upsetting in equal measure.The first production of Oscar Wildes Salome in 1918, with American exotic dancer Maud Allan dancing lead, ignited a firestorm in London spearheaded by Noel Pemberton Billing, a member of Parliament and self-appointed guardian of family values. Billing attacked Allan in the right-wing newspaper Vigilante as a member of the Cult of the Clitoris, a feminine version of the Cult of the Wilde, a catchall for the degeneracy and perversion he was convinced had infected the land. He claimed that a black book was in the hands of their enemies the Germans, a book that contained the names of thousands of the British establishment who without doubt were members of the cult. Threat of exposure was costing England the war.Allan sued Billing for libel, and the ensuing trial, brought to life in this authoritative, spellbinding book, held the world in thrall. Was there or was there not a black book? What names did it contain? The trial was both hugely entertaining and deadly serious and raised specters of hysteria, homophobia, and paranoia that, like Oscar Wilde himself, continue to haunt us. As in Wildes own trial in 1895, libel was hardly the issue; the fight was for control over the countrys moral compass. In Oscar Wildes Last Stand, biographer and historian Philip Hoare gives us the full drama of the Billing trial, gavel to gavel, and brings to life this unique, bizarre, and fascinating event.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of The Whale.In 1520, Albrecht Durer, the most celebrated artist in Northern Europe, sailed to Zeeland to see a whale. A central figure of the Renaissance, no one had painted or drawn the world like him. Durer drew hares and rhinoceroses in the way he painted saints and madonnas. The wing of a bird or the wing of an angel; a spider crab or a bursting star like the augury of a black hole, in Durers art, they were part of a connected world. Everything had meaning.But now he was in crisis. He had lost his patron, the Holy Roman Emperor. He was moorless and filled with wanderlust. In the shape of the whale, he saw his final ambition.Durer was the first artist to truly employ the power of reproduction. He reinvented the way people looked at, and understood, art. He painted signs and wonders; comets, devils, horses, nudes, dogs, and blades of grass so accurately that even today they seem hyper-real, utterly modern images. Most startling and most modern of all, he painted himself, at every stage of his life.But his art captured more than the physical world, he also captured states of mind.Albert and the Whale explores the work of this remarkable man through a personal lens. Drawing on Philips experience of the natural world, and of the elements that shape our contemporary lives, from suburbia to the wide open sea, Philip will enter Durers time machine. Seeking his own Leviathan, Hoare help us better understand the interplay between art and our world in this sublimely seductive book.

The definitive biography of one of the 20th centurys most celebrated and controversial dramatists.To several generations, actor, playwright, songwriter, and filmmaker Noel Coward (18991973) was the very personification of wit, glamour, and elegance. Given unprecedented access to the private papers and correspondence of Coward family members, compatriots, and numerous lovers, Samuel Johnson Prizewinning biographer Philip Hoare has produced an illuminating and sophisticated biography of Coward, whose relentless drive for success and approval fueled the stunning bursts of creativity that launched the once-painfully middle class boy from the suburbs of London into a pantheon of theatrical deities that includes Gilbert and Sullivan, Oscar Wilde, and George Bernard Shaw.As much the embodiment of a lifestyle as an actual inhabitant of it, Cowards carefully cultivated image defined the aspirations of untold numbers of actors, artists, and writers who succeeded him, and Hoares meticulously researched biography peels away the layers of this complex persona to reveal the man underneath it all, whom The Times (London) decreed upon his death to be the most versatile of all the great figures of the English theater.

This edition does not include illustrations. The story of a mans obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey from his childhood to his fascination with Moby-Dick and his excursions whale-watching. All his life, Philip Hoare has been obsessed by whales, from the gigantic skeletons in Londons Natural History Museum to adult encounters with the wild animals themselves. Whales have a mythical quality they seem to elide with dark fantasies of sea-serpents and antediluvian monsters that swim in our collective unconscious. In Leviathan, Philip Hoare seeks to locate and identify this obsession. What impelled Melville to write Moby-Dick? After his book in 1851, no one saw whales in quite the same way again. This book is an investigation into what we know little about dark, shadowy creatures who swim below the depths, only to surface in a spray of spume. More than the story of the whale, it is also the story of our own obsessions.

El mar nos rodea. Nos da vida, nos proporciona el aire que respiramos y la comida que ingerimos. Es el origen de nuestra existencia y el que transporta nuestro comercio. Representa el hogar y la migracion, es cambio incesante y presencia constante. Ocupa dos terceras partes de nuestro planeta. Y a pesar de estar presente en nuestras vidas diarias, apenas le damos importancia. En El mar interior, Philip Hoare nos propone redescubrir el mar, sus islas, aves y bestias. Nos situa en la costa sur donde crecio, un lugar de recuerdos familiares donde la soledad todavia perdura y el oceano proporciona una via de escape. Desde alli viaja al otro extremo del mundo, desde la isla de Wight a las Azores, desde Sri Lanka a Tasmania y Nueva Zelanda, en busca de encuentros con animales y personas la contraposicion de lo salvaje y lo civilizado, lo vivo y lo extinguido. Navegando entre la historia humana y natural, entre la ciencia y el mito, Hoare se cuestiona que significan sus historias para nosotros ahora, en el siglo veintiuno, cuando el mar nunca ha sido importante para nuestro presente, pasado o futuro. Por el camino conoceremos a personajes espectaculares, desde cientificos y artistas excentricos hasta guerreros tatuados, pasando por cuervos, ballenas y bizarras criaturas que podrian, o no, haberse extinguido. En parte memoir, en parte guia de viajes fantastica, El mar interior nos acompaña en un asombroso viaje de descubrimiento, repleta de asombrosas historias sobre la fe y el miedo, la tierra y la destruccion, la mortalidad y la belleza. Pero sobre todo es una historia sobre la naturaleza y el mar que todos llevamos dentro.

This ebook contains a limited number of illustrations. The story of Netley in Southampton its hospital, its people and the secret history of the 20th-century. Now with a new afterword uncovering astonishing evidence of Netleys links with Porton Down & experiments with LSD in the 1950s. It was the biggest hospital ever built. Stretching for a quarter of a mile along the banks of Southampton Water, the Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley was an expression of Victorian imperialism in a million red bricks, a sprawling behemoth so vast that when the Americans took it over in World War II, GIs drove their jeeps down its corridors. Born out of the bloody mess of the Crimean War, it would see the first women serving in the military, trained by Florence Nightingale; the first vaccine for typhoid; and the first purpos- built military asylum. Here Wilfred Owen would be brought along with countless other shell-shocked victims of World War I captured on film, their tremulous ghosts still haunted the asylum a generation later. In Spike Island, Philip Hoare has written a biography of a building. In the process he deals with his own past, and his own relationship to its history.

Del autor de Leviatán o la ballena y El mar interior, nos llega un maravilloso retrato compuesto por las sutiles, hermosas, inspiradas y enloquecedoras maneras en que el ser humano se ha relacionado con el planeta del agua. En el cierre de su trilogia sob

A new reissue of Philip Hoares singular biography of Stephen Tennant.Witty and amazing both scholarly and hilarious at the same time John Waters, New York Times Philip Hoares fascinating profile of Britains most legendary and flamboyant aristocratic aesthete. With unparalleled insight into Tennants bizarre and outrageously eccentric life, Hoare presents a superb biography that reflects an age of intellect, indolence, narcissism and pure style.

A startling new book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, co-curator of Moby Dick: Big Read and winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for Leviathan. The sea surrounds us. It gives us life, provides us with the air we breathe and the food we eat. It is ceaseless change and constant presence. It covers two-thirds of our planet. Yet caught up in our everyday lives, we barely notice it. In The Sea Inside, Philip Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea, its islands, birds and beasts. He begins on the south coast where he grew up, a place of almost monastic escape. From there he travels to the other side of the world the Azores, Sri Lanka, New Zealand in search of encounters with animals and people. Navigating between human and natural history, he asks what these stories mean for us now. Along the way we meet an amazing cast; from scientists to tattooed warriors; from ravens to whales and bizarre creatures that may, or may not, be extinct. Part memoir, part fantastical travelogue, The Sea Inside takes us on an astounding journey of discovery.

A kaleidoscopic story of myth, Spiritualism, and the Victorian search for Utopia from one of the brightest and most original non-fiction writers at work today. In 1872 there was a bizarre eruption of religious mania in Hampshires New Forest. Its leader was Mary Ann Girling, a Suffolk farmers daughter who claimed to be the female Christ and whose sect, the Children of God, lived in imminent anticipation of the millennium. It was rumoured that Mrs Girling mesmerised her supporters, literally hypnotising them to keep them in her power. Other reports claimed that the sect murdered their illegitimate offspring in their Utopian home at New Forest Lodge. Through Mary Anns story and the spiritual vortex around her, Philip Hoare takes us deeper into the pagan heart of the New Forest. In the neighbouring village of Sway, an eccentric barrister, Andrew Peterson, conducted seances in which the spirit of Christopher Wren instructed Peterson to build a 300-foot concrete tower to alleviate local unemployment. Wren, although dead for two centuries, even issued Peterson with the exact plans for the foundations and the formula for the concrete. It rose like some spiritualist lighthouse towering over the trees, and looming over the Shaker encampment and Mrs Girlings Children of God. At the same time, on the other side of the forest, in the grand country house of the Cowper-Temples, further experiments into the realms of the Victorian uncanny were under way. William Cowper-Temple, a supporter of Mary Ann Girling, vegetarian, anti-blood sport activist and member of Parliament, had joined his wife Georgiana in her Spiritualist quest. A third pair of hands came to the table, those of John Ruskin the great Victorian artist, scientist, poet and philosopher who sought the dead spirit of his beloved Rose La Touche. His explorations into the afterlife would eventually send him insane. Through this unique biography of the New Forest Philip Hoare paints a strange, and little known, portrait of Victorian England a fascinating story of disorder in an avowed age of reason.

Rich and strange from the tip of its title to its deep-sunk bones Robert Macfarlane From the author of Leviathan, or, The Whale, comes a composite portrait of the subtle, beautiful, inspired and demented ways in which we have come to terms with our watery planet. In the third of his watery books, the author goes in pursuit of human and animal stories of the sea. Of people enchanted or driven to despair by the water, accompanied by whales and birds and seals familiar spirits swimming and flying with the author on his meandering odyssey from suburbia into the unknown. Along the way, he encounters drowned poets and eccentric artists, modernist writers and era-defining performers, wild utopians and national heroes famous or infamous, they are all surprisingly, and sometimes fatally, linked to the sea. Out of the storm-clouds of the twenty-first century and our restive time, these stories reach back into the past and forward into the future. This is a shape-shifting world that has never been certain, caught between the natural and unnatural, where the state between human and animal is blurred. Time, space, gender and species become as fluid as the sea. Here humans challenge their landbound lives through art or words or performance or myth, through the animal and the elemental. And here they are forever drawn back to the water, forever lost and found on the infinite sea.

A revelatory and joyous exploration of how one visionary inspired two-hundred years of art, poetry and protest by the acclaimed author of Albert and the WhaleWeaving between the historical, cultural, and personal, award-winning author Philip Hoare reveals a web of creative minds and artistic iconoclasts fired by the wild and revolutionary genius of William Blake.Blake is one of the greatest artists in western history. His art envelops us. He invented a way to put words and images on a page to express his poetry and art in a manner that has never been truly equaled. Even in his own time, his fans and followers were left speechless.Blakes heavenly bodies are our real selves, soaring beyond time and space. His art is a time machine. We can climb aboard and be taken to the stars. Blake accepted no limits to the human spirit.Throughout his life he worked as one-artist, two-people with his partner, Kate. Together they created their visions of what the world could be, filled with majestic menageries of tygers burning bright and angels in trees, of leviathans and demons and human fleas and a devil who burns with revolutionary ecstasy.In William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love, with Philip Hoare as our inimitable guide, Blake rises as a new hope for our own era.

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022This is a wonderful book. A lyrical journey into the natural and unnatural world Patti Smith Everything Philip Hoare writes is bewitching Olivia Laing An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of Leviathan. Albrecht Durer changed the way we saw nature through art. From his prints in 1498 of the plague ridden Apocalypse the first works mass produced by any artist to his hyper-real images of animals and plants, his art was a revelation: it showed us who we are but it also foresaw our future. It is a vision that remains startlingly powerful and seductive, even now. In Albert & the Whale, Philip Hoare sets out to discover why Durers art endures. He encounters medieval alchemists and modernist poets, eccentric emperors and queer soul rebels, ambassadorial whales and enigmatic pop artists. He witnesses the miraculous birth of Durers fantastical rhinoceros and his hermaphroditic hare, and he traces the fate of the star-crossed leviathan that the artist pursued. And as the author swims from Europe to America and beyond, these prophetic artists and downed angels provoke awkward questions. What is natural or unnatural? Is art a fatal contract? Or does it in fact have the power to save us?

Un viaje caleidoscópico a través del mar, el arte y la vida.En 1520, Alberto Durero, el artista más famoso del norte de Europa, zarpó ansioso hasta Zelanda, una de las doce provincias costeras de los Paises Bajos, para ver por primera vez una ballena. Nadie pintaba o dibujaba el mundo como el y sus representaciones capturaban el fragil espiritu de las bestias, las personas y la naturaleza. Su arte fue una revelacion que ha perdurado hasta nuestros dias: nos mostro quienes somos y predijo nuestro futuro.Sin embargo, Durero estaba hundido en la melancolia: acababa de perder el respaldo de su mecenas, el sacro emperador romano, y deseaba conocer mundo. En este momento de su vida, la ballena se convirtio en su ambicion final.Esta es la historia de un genio en busca de su propio Leviatan, y nadie mejor que Philip Hoare para relatar este fascinante viaje a traves del arte y el mundo que nos rodea y que explora el fuerte vinculo entre la pasion creativa y la naturaleza, desde el taller de un visionario hasta el oceano. Desfilan por sus paginas alquimistas medievales y poetas modernistas, emperadores excentricos, almas rebeldes y artistas profeticos cuyas vidas y aventuras nos llevan a preguntarnos que es real y que es fantasia en el arte, y si este tiene el poder de salvarnos.Un libro maravilloso. Un viaje lirico hacia el mundo natural y el antinatural. [] Nos lleva desde las manos de un grabador hasta la monstruosa belleza que habita en el mar agitado.Patti SmithUna obra maestra, un frenesi, un resplandor y, sobre todo, por razones que seran evidentes cuando el lector se zambulla en sus paginas, un dia en la playa.Simon SchamaDe Durero a David Bowie, una reflexion maravillosamente eclectica de la relacion entre naturaleza y arte.Michael Prodger, The Sunday TimesHoare conjura como Prospero, con una pluma magica que nos trae al presente a la gente del pasado. [] Alberto y la ballena es su mejor obra hasta la fecha.Laura Cumming, The Guardian