Floating gold
Subtitle: a natural (and unnatural) history of ambergris
By: Christopher Kemp
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226430362
Subjects: Ambergris
Table of contents: title: On Long Beach; title: There is a piece at Rome as big as a man's head; title: The beach mafia; title: It looked like roquefort and it smelled like limburger; title: A molecule here and a molecule there; title: Close encounters of the ambergris kind; title: The hopefuls; title: On the road; title: Gone a-whaling; title: A meeting.