Author Alice Kinsella, Daniel Wade
Published 31/10/2024
Mayo Books Press
Together the authors weave a conversation that challenges our deeply ingrained assumptions about human, and animal, nature.A genre-bending book that blends history, poetry, and documentary, Wake of the Whale asks if the attitudes that brought whales to the brink of extinction are now threatening our own?
Praise for Wake of the Whale
“An utterly brilliant and visual-physical-poetical exploration of the fate and mortal beauty of the whale in Irish waters. All the pity and majesty of their existence, and ours, is laid bare in Alice Kinsella’s dreamlike work which, like Melville’s Moby-Dick before it, defies all description and arouses the deepest empathy.”
– Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan