THE JONAH KIT

by Ian Watson

$250 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1975. Octavo, boards. First edition. A multi-stranded narrative in which a sperm whale is imprinted with a human brain pattern in order to establish communication with others of its kind; simultaneously, astronomers discover the truth about the nature of the universe. The story ends unhappily for the intelligent whales and dolphins of our oceans. A very busy novel, alive with ideas Pringle,

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