5/29/2023 0 Comments Fathoms the world in the whale![]() And she sketches a history of the economic exploitation of whales and the movement to protect them. She deconstructs the various uses of whale imagery in mass and social media. Giggs comments on magazine reports about the latest whale research. In the main, Fathoms (Scribe) is an attempt to interpret our contemporary moment – and in particular our relationship with the non-human world – through the glistening figure of the whale in all its myriad aspects. And what a vivid evocation, with the dead mass of the whale and the fluttering ribbons. ![]() This gruesome therapy, pioneered by a hotel in Eden on the New South Wales coast, involved bathing inside the still-warm carcass of a freshly killed whale.ĭescribing archival photographs of the treatment in the National Library, Giggs marvels at the violent absurdity of the remedy:īecause the prints are black and white, the bloodied cynosure of the whale is not apparent – yet how its flesh must have sung redly against the green and grey bushland! The women are up to their shoulders in the whale, and still wearing ribboned hats. ![]() The Australian writer’s lyrical consideration of our relationship with whales is a new and ambitious kind of nature writingĪmong the many memorable whale-related majorae and minutiae collected in this astonishing, desolating, exasperating, utterly original debut by Australian nature writer Rebecca Giggs is her description of the late-19th-century health treatment known as the whale cure. ![]()
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