A whale obsessed author has won the £20,000 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.
Leviathan, Or The Whale, written by Philip Hoare depicts the authors life long passion for the mammal as he travels the globe in search of the creature.
US journalist Jacob Weisberg, led the panel, "What made Leviathan stand out in a shortlist of wonderful reads was Philip Hoare's lifelong passion for his subject and his skill in making his readers share it," he said. "His prose is dream-like and rises to the condition of literature."
To find out more about Leviathan, Or The Whale, visit http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8127527.stm or to purchase a copy of the award winning book go to http://www.guardian.co.uk/buybooks
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