Philip Hoare

Philip Hoare is a British author, broadcaster, and cultural historian. He is an acclaimed writer about the sea, nature, and cultural history, and his book Leviathan won the Samuel Johnson Prize. Leviathan is his epic exploration of humanity's relationship with whales — a genre-defying blend of natural history, cultural history, memoir, and literary criticism that won the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers a genre-defying masterpiece about whales and the sea — a book that won Britain's most prestigious nonfiction prize and will change how you see the ocean.