Albrecht Dürer changed the way we saw nature through art. From his prints in 1498 of the plague ridden Apocalypse—the first works mass produced by any artist—to his hyper-real images of animals and plants, his art was a revelation—it showed us who we are but it also foresaw our future. It is a vision that remains startlingly powerful and seductive, even now. In Albert & the Whale, Philip Hoare sets out to discover why Dürer's art endures. With its wild and watery adventures, its witty accounts of amazing cultural lives and its delight in the fragile beauty of the natural world, Albert & the Whale offers glorious, inspiring insights into a great artist, and his unerring, sometimes disturbing gaze.