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A fascinating modern hunt for a treasure from a most surprising source -- a whale's stomach. Journalist and biologist Christopher Kemp discovers, after reading an odd news report, a hidden world of money, intrigue and amazing wealth. A lump of something turns up on a beach in NZ, the lump so strange it may well have come from out of space. But it's not a dead alien, it's ambergris. Ambergris is a by-product of sperm whales, used for centuries as a perfume, medicine and aphrodisiac. It appears on

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Author

Christopher James Kemp

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Australia

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780730497264

Category

reference

Subjects

Nature, Stem

Rating

4.2 / 5 (102 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14