The Singing Sea
A Year of Seals
$40.11
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2027
Summary
Seals always surprise, confound and disconcert, whether we see hundreds of moulting bodies on a rocky beach or a single head just beyond the surf. They have always affected humans in weird ways. What is their true nature? Their lumbering physicality? Their numinous aura? Their ability to shapeshift, becoming human parents or lovers? Do they have souls?
Acclaimed naturalist Charles Foster tries to find out – diving with seals through Scottish kelp forests, joining tourists seal-spottin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529959529 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529959527 |
| Author: | Charles Foster |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Doubleday |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2027 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 138mm x 222mm |
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Charles Foster
Charles Foster is a New York Times bestselling author whose work has been longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for nature writing, and won the Ig Nobel Prize for Biology and the 30 Millions d’Amis Prize. He is a fellow of Exeter College, University of Oxford, and has particular passions for Greece, waves, the Upper Palaeolithic, mountains and swifts.
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