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Author:
Kemp, Christopher.
Title:
Floating gold : a natural (and unnatural) history of ambergris / Christopher Kemp.
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press,
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
xiii, 187 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Ambergris.
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.
ISBN:
0226430367 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780226430362 (cloth : alkaline paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)756577742
LCCN:
2011050637
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)

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