Prologue. Chapter 1: My Aunt Jane. Chapter 2: In the Scottish Islands. Chapter 3: The Meeting. Chapter 4: In London. Chapter 5: The Return. Chapter 6: Robert Thompson. Chapter 7: The Party. Chapter 8: Progress. Chapter 9: A Visit to Wiltshire. Chapter 10: Retrospect. Chapter 11: The Future. Chapter 12: Three Years: A New Education. Chapter 13: At Fieldbanks House. Chapter 14: Tisala's World. Chapter 15: The Legend of Tisano. Chapter 16: The Coming of Whaling. Chapter 17: Siana. Chapter 18: The Antarctic Opened - 1904-1914. Chapter 19: Saba. Chapter 20: The Great Death - 1928-1939. Chapter 21: Ellie's Day. Chapter 22: A New Life. Chapter 23: Consumer Products. Chapter 24: In the Image of God. Chapter 25: The Advance of Death. Chapter 26: The Beginning of the End? Chapter 27: The Struggle. Chapter 28: A Glimmer of Dawn. Chapter 29: On Evolution. Chapter 30: The Coming of Darkness. Chapter 31: Alone. Chapter 32: Will and Penny. Chapter 33: On the Origins of Belief. Chapter 34: On Religions. Chapter 35: Against Exclusivity. Chapter 36: On Power and Hell. Chapter 37: Whaling 1964-75. Chapter 38: The Russian Trawler. Chapter 39: On War and Peace. Chapter 40: The Nuclear Threat. Chapter 41: Eric and Family. Chapter 42: Illicit Whaling and the Moratorium. Chapter 43: On Population. Chapter 44: Human Numbers and Restraint. Chapter 45: Economic Resources. Chapter 46: A Visit to the Tropics. Chapter 47: Music. Chapter 48: Eric. Chapter 49: On Education. Chapter 50: Aspects of Learning. Chapter 51: Guinevere's Grief, and Susannah. Chapter 52: The Terrible Event. Chapter 53: Aftermath. Chapter 54: London, 1983 and Ethics. Chapter 55: On the Origin of Christianity. Chapter 56: Vancouver. Chapter 57: London and Susannah. Chapter 58: On Inis Cuan Again. Chapter 59: On Happiness. Chapter 60: A Wedding. Chapter 61: On Meaning and Value in Life. Chapter 62: Whaling: 1980s and the Japanese. Chapter 63: Families. Chapter 64: The Nation State, War and Peace. Chapter 65: Hopes and Peace. Chapter 66: Europe - a New Beginning? Chapter 67: The Parliament of the World. Chapter 68: On Modern Whaling and the Future. Chapter 69: Guinevere and Heaven. Chapter 70: Changing Beliefs. Chapter 71: Final Days. Chapter 72: Valete.
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Richard Seward Newton's family home was in Surrey. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and Oxford where he studied history and English literature. He was a lawyer before becoming a lecturer in London. He now lives with his wife near Bath. After meeting a whale when he was a student, Richard spent many years researching the natural history and biology of whales, and the horrific history of their near-destruction at the hands of mankind. The whales' story, together with Richard's experience of practical human affairs and his life-long interest in history, literature and science have come together in this profound and fascinating book, Tisala, his first novel.
"Richard Seward Newton's leviathanic work is an extraordinary feat of fantasy and philosophy, fascinatingly bound up in the all-too real and vexed shared history between human and whale". Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan or, The Whale, and The Sea Inside; "Richard Seward Newton has written an amazingly fresh and fascinating novel focused on the loving friendship between a biologist and a blue whale. Full of wisdom, romance, and philosophy, it is at once an inspiring adventure, a denunciation of whaling, and an exploration for durable truths. Tisala is a richly nourishing book, an intellectual tour de force, and a compelling story about the inhumane barbarity of humans. Newton gently encourages us to re-think what it means to live ethically. I could not put this engrossing book down." Professor Chris Palmer, author of Shooting in the Wild, Distinguished Film Producer in Residence at American University, and Director of the Center for Environmental Filmmaking in Washington, DC.
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