#19: Fathoms – The World in the Whale – with Rebecca Giggs

"Fathoms - The World in the Whale": That is the title of
Australian author Rebecca Giggs' first book (published by SCRIBE
and Simon Schuster in April 2020) – and it is, indeed, the gate
to a large world...


In it, Rebecca blends natural history, philosophy and science to
reveal an unexpected world in a stranded whale – with more
cross-connections to our “human world” than we might have ever
thought about.⁠


In Australia, "Fathoms" won the Mark and Evette Moran Nib
Literary Prize, and the Royal Society's Whitley Award for Popular
Zoology. The book has also recently been shortlisted for the
prestigious ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in
Nonfiction, and the Kirkus Prize in the US. Rebecca's essays and
articles have appeared in Best Australian Science Writing and
Best Australian Essays, as well as in The Atlantic, Granta, The
New York Times Magazine, and Griffith Review.⁠


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