RMG Live: In Conversation with Rebecca Giggs - Fathoms: The World in the Whale

The last of the years’ RMG Lives took place 01 December 2020 with Rebecca Giggs in conversation with Paddy Rodgers and Laura Boon - the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Public Curator: Contemporary Maritime.

Rebecca is an Australian non-fiction writer, and her first book Fathoms: The World in the Whale explores the whale as cultural icon, historical record, and ecological symbol. A nice moment to round off the year online.

This final talk was held in partnership with our friends at National Maritime Museum Cornwall - thanks to Lindsey Skinner for the collaboration. And in addition to Rebecca, Paddy and Laura, thanks to Colin Midson from Scribe UK getting the ball rolling.

Rebecca Giggs is an author from Perth, Australia. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, Granta, and in anthologies including Best Australian Essays, and Best Australian Science Writing. Rebecca’s nonfiction focuses on how people feel towards animals in a time of technological and ecological change.

Fathoms: The World in the Whale is her first book. In Australia, Fathoms won the Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Prize, and the Royal Society's Whitley Award for Popular Zoology. The book has also recently been shortlisted for the prestigious ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and the Kirkus Prize in the US.

The captioned film was provided for one month exclusively to members and patrons as an RMG Live. For more info check out RMG Members and RMG Patrons.