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A book about a life-long obsession with whales inspired by the literary classic Moby-Dick has won the UK’s most prestigious non-fiction prize. Leviathan, or The Whale by Philip Hoare, has been named the winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2009.
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