Fathoms

<p><strong>Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Shortlisted for the Stella Prize Highly Commended in the Wainwright Prize for writing on global conservation and a <em>Sunday Independent</em> Book of the Year. </strong></p> <p><strong>How do whales experience environmental change? Has our connection to these animals been transformed by technology? What future awaits us and them?</strong></p> <p><em>Fathoms</em> blends natural history philosophy and science to explore these questions. Giggs introduces us to whales so rare they have never been named and tells us of whale &#145;pop&#146; songs that sweep across hemispheres. She takes us into the deeps to discover that one whale&#146;s death can spark a great flourishing of creatures. We travel to Japan to board whaling ships examine the uncanny charisma of these magnificent mammals and confront the plastic pollution now pervading their underwater environment.</p>