Title Floating gold : a natural (and unnatural) history of ambergris / Christopher Kemp.

Publication Info.

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	333.9595 KEMP	Check Shelf

Description	xiii, 187 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents	On Long Beach -- There is a piece at Rome as big as a man's head -- The beach mafia -- It looked like roquefort and it smelled like limburger -- A molecule here and a molecule there -- Close encounters of the ambergris kind -- The hopefuls -- On the road -- Gone a-whaling -- A meeting.
Subject	Ambergris.
ISBN	9780226430362 cloth alkaline paper
	0226430367 cloth alkaline paper

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