Floating gold : a natural (and unnatural) history of ambergris /
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| Author / Creator: | Kemp, Christopher, author. |
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| Edition: | Paperback edition. |
| Imprint: | Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2022. |
| Description: | xiii, 187 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13560669 |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Wellington, 2008
- Introduction: Marginalia
- 1. On Long Beach
- 2. There Is a Piece at Rome as Big as a Man's Head
- 3. The Beach Mafia
- 4. It Looked like Roquefort and It Smelled like Limburger
- 5. A Molecule Here and a Molecule There
- 6. Close Encounters of the Ambergris Kind
- 7. The Hopefuls
- 8. On the Road
- 9. Gone A-Whaling
- 10. A Meeting
- Epilogue