D. Graham Burnett, Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case that Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+266. ISBN 978-0-691-12950-1. £17.95 [Book Review]

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