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A yearlong adventure through the world's oceans with Philip Hoare, the award-winning author of The Whale

In colorful prose and lively line drawings, Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea and its islands, birds, and beasts. Starting at his home on the shores of Britain's Southampton Water and moving in ever widening circles--like the migration patterns of whales--Hoare explores London, the Isle of Wight, the Azores, Sri Lanka, Tasmania, and New Zealand.

As Hoare brilliantly weaves together literary and natural history, we encounter memorable people as well as the dolphins, whales, and other creatures above and below the water (even one species formerly believed to 
be extinct).

Echoing the fine tradition of W. G. Sebald, but in a voice all Hoare's own, The Sea Inside is bursting with an endless series of delights and revelations from the ever-changing sea.

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        Philip Hoare lives and works in Southampton, England. He is the author of The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea, winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction, as well as biographies of Noel Coward, Stephen Tennant, and a study of Oscar Wilde. He is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Southampton; artist in residence at the Marine Institute, Plymouth University; and cocurator of the Moby-Dick Big Read. Follow him on Twitter at @philipwhale.

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In colorful prose and lively line drawings, Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea and its islands, birds, and beasts. Starting at his home on the shores of Britain's Southampton Water and moving in ever widening circles--like the migration patterns of whales--Hoare explores London, the Isle of Wight, the Azores, Sri Lanka, Tasmania, and New Zealand.

As Hoare brilliantly weaves together literary and natural history, we encounter memorable people as well as the dolphins, whales, and other creatures above and below the water (even one species formerly believed to 
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Echoing the fine tradition of W. G. Sebald, but in a voice all Hoare's own, The Sea Inside is bursting with an endless series of delights and revelations from the ever-changing sea.

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      • source: New York Times Book Review
      • content: "In his fascinating travelogue... Hoare has adopted the Sebald approach, complete with text-embedded photographs and artwork, as he wanders around and across a variety of seas from England to New Zealand in search of their tales, lore, history, ecology, biological complexity and elusive beauty."
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      • source: Wall Street Journal
      • content: "Mr. Hoare's gimlet eye sees the magical in the mundane... The Sea Inside embraces the dangers and mysteries of the natural world and in them finds transcendental awe."
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      • source: Financial Times
      • content: "A magnificent book."
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      • source: Boston Globe
      • content: "The Sea Inside is a charming book: learned, passionate, idiosyncratic, and more than a bit melancholy."
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      • source: Salon, Authors' Favorite Books of 2014
      • content: "Charming, deeply intimate, erudite, and unguardedly awestruck and awe-inspiring."
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      • source: Flavorwire, 50 Books to Help You Keep Your New Year's Resolutions
      • content: "A gorgeous meditation on one of the most mysterious and captivating places on the planet."
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      • source: Daily Beast, This Week's Hot Reads
      • content: "The Sea Inside offers discoveries in every chapter--Hoare, in addition to being an inherently interesting writer, has a talent for uncovering fascinating historical narratives. This author is a virtuosic storyteller, and The Sea Inside is a welcome opportunity to accompany him on his wanderings--be they geographical, philosophical, or narrative."
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      • source: Reader's Digest, 10 Great New Books from Small Presses
      • content: "Part travelogue, part memoir, and wholly absorbing."
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      • source: Christian Science Monitor, 10 Excellent Books You Might Have Missed in 2014
      • content: "Every one of his sentences shimmers with acute perception... This is reading as revelation."
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      • source: Salon, Memorial Day weekend reading list
      • content: "Part memoir and part natural history, [Hoare's] narrative is simultaneously philosophical and engaging."
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      • source: House of Speakeasy
      • content: "Quite remarkable."
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      • source: Green Apple Books recommendations, SF Gate
      • content: "An evocative memoir about one man's relationship with the sea, as well as an elegiac account of dying environments."
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      • source: Provincetown Magazine
      • content: "I can honestly say I have never read anything that was more attuned to the connections between science, history, and the mysteries of existence. Hoare takes us on many a welcome tangent, always bringing us deeper inside ourselves, putting us in touch with our humanity...for better or for worse."
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      • source: Rain Taxi
      • content: "A stirring book about both outer and inner depths, The Sea Inside shows that humans are intrinsically connected with the ocean."
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      • source: Electric Literature
      • content: "Here is the distilled essence of Hoare's work: one part poetry, one part record, and one part a plea for us to pay attention to these oceans, our oceans--and ourselves."
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      • source: Booklist, starred review
      • content: "Literary history and natural history entwine so seamlessly in Hoare's narrative that the barrier between readers and the sea within all of us blurs and disappears."
      • premium: False
      • source: Publishers Weekly, starred review
      • content: "Hoare's writing awakens the senses with visions, sounds, and smells of the ocean; his delight and interest in nature will encourage readers to look around with new eyes."
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      • source: Kirkus Reviews
      • content: "This is not a book following the geography of the sea; nor is it a history of sailing. It is an attempt to establish and examine the oneness that the Maori have understood for years: There is no difference between life on land and life in the sea... A beautifully written memoir/travelogue with readable diversions into philosophy."
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      • source: London Review of Books (UK)
      • content: "A crammed treasure chest."
      • premium: False
      • source: The Observer (UK)
      • content: "A profound and lyrical love affair."
      • premium: False
      • source: The Times (UK)
      • content: "As bracing as a great blustery lungful of ozone-filled air... His passionate engagement will infect you."
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      • source: Sunday Telegraph (UK)
      • content: "The range, variety and enthusiasm... elevates the work into the realm of sheer entertainment... A delight."
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        Starred review from March 3, 2014
        Hoare (The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea) takes readers on a leisurely and lyrical tour of the world's waters and their inhabitants. A regular visitor to the sea near his home in England, Hoare shares his love and fascination for nature of all kinds, from the Eurasian oystercatcher and seals to the vestigial structures humans possess that provide evidence of ancestry. Hoare's writing reads like a postcard or journal demarcating his travels. On the Isle of Wight, he discusses ravens and the life of pilgrims. He encounters sperm whales around the Azores, sharing how they hear sound and make vibrations, and blue whales in the Indian Ocean, contemplating how near they came to extinction due to hunting. A journey to Tasmania reminds Hoare of his ancestors who landed there and brings to mind the haunting tale of the Tasmanian tiger, possibly hunted to extinction decades ago but with rumored sightings in recent years. Hoare swims with dolphins, observes a porpoise autopsy, and visits the island of Kapiti, an avian reserve. Hoare's writing awakens the senses with visions, sounds, and smells of the ocean; his delight and interest in nature will encourage readers to look around with new eyes. Agent: Gillon Aitken, Aitken Alexander Associates.

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        February 1, 2014
        Do we come from the sea? Hoare's (The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea, 2010, etc.) absorbing book may well lead you to think so. Could not man have come from the sea in search of the bounty of tidal beaches? Anyone who has an affinity, indeed a need, for the water will understand the author's desire to swim every day near his home in Southampton, England, where "it is never not beautiful." "At low tide," he writes, "the beach is an indecent expanse laid bare by retreat, more like farmland than anything of the sea: an inundated field, almost peaty with sediment, as much charcoal as it is sludge." No matter what country or continent he visits, the author makes a point to swim and become a part of that sea. He's fearless as he leaps into oceans near and far to commune with any swimming mammal that may be near; whether whales or a superpod of 200 dolphins, the mammals of the sea circle him, inspect him and accept him. His travels and his meandering, humorous writing take us from the Isle of Wight to the Azores, Sri Lanka, and the nearly primeval Tasmania and New Zealand, and Hoare delivers delightful descriptions of sea creatures and shore birds, bemoaning animals newly and nearly extinct. This is not a book following the geography of the sea; nor is it a history of sailing. It is an attempt to establish and examine the oneness that the Maori have understood for years: There is no difference between life on land and life in the sea. While the author may digress occasionally, readers will relish his writing and devotion to nature and likely won't begrudge him a bit of family history here and there. A beautifully written memoir/travelogue with readable diversions into philosophy.

        COPYRIGHT(2014) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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        Starred review from March 15, 2014
        As Hoare (The Whale, 2010) states in the opening pages of this lyrical book, the sea defines us, connects us, and separates us. When Hoare sets out on a journey to rediscover the sea, he also meditates on the past, on the whales, birds, and other animals he encounters and on the people who had been there before him. Starting out in Southampton Water, his own suburban sea, he radiates out to the Isle of Wight (his white sea) and London with its underground rivers (the inland sea), never out of reach of the tidal surge. From there he travels to the Azores (the azure sea), where he dives with dolphins and sperm whales, then to Sri Lanka (the sea of serendipity) and an encounter with the sleek sensuality of the world's largest animal, the blue whale. Tasmania (the southern sea) brings more whaleshumpbacks this timeand seabirds and the mythic Tasmanian tiger, while New Zealand (the wandering sea) offers encounters with an enormous bull sperm whale, and tiny Kapiti (the silent sea) presents a paean to the Maori. Literary history and natural history entwine so seamlessly in Hoare's narrative that the barrier between readers and the sea within all of us blurs and disappears.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)

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As Hoare brilliantly weaves together literary and natural history, we encounter memorable people as well as the dolphins, whales, and other creatures above and below the water (even one species formerly believed to 
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Echoing the fine tradition of W. G. Sebald, but in a voice all Hoare's own, The Sea Inside is bursting with an endless series of delights and revelations from the ever-changing sea.

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