Tisala

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This literary novel is a story of love, passion and friendship in which the lives of Tisala, a Blue Whale, and David, a biologist, are bound up with whaling and the wider problems of the modern world. Tisala and David take us on an extraordinary, epic, philosophical journey like no other in which all the great issues facing humanity are explored.
In 1960, David, a young London biologist researching in the Scottish Islands encounters a Blue Whale - Tisala. David becomes convinced that the whale is trying to communicate. With the help of an acoustic engineer a breakthrough is made. Two worlds meet. The whale, Tisala, wants David to help save the few remaining Blue Whales from being hunted to extinction. Set against the background history of whaling, the cruel slaughter of the greatest mammals on earth, and the struggle to stop it, the existence of a higher intelligence emerges. This is a story of love, passion and friendship in which the lives of Tisala and David are bound up with the problems of the modern world. In the sweep of twentieth century history, Tisala comes to understand that mankind threatens its own future as well as much of life on Earth. In this philosophical and satirical novel Richard Seward Newton, through Tisala, turns his mind to the great issues facing humanity, from war, religion and population to education, economics and ethics, and seeks to distil the knowledge and wisdom that might lead to a happier world. It is an astonishing voyage of exploration in understanding the world in which we live.A profound, sad, hope-filled, epic story.
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Weight 0.400000
Author Newton, Richard Seward
Availability IP
Department Literature
Format Paperback
ISBN 9781910369067
Pages 640
Published 15/09/2015
Publisher Blue Mark
Section Literature
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