![]() A material that, unlike any other, must take a long voyage across wide oceans before the chance and pure luck of discovery allows its secrets to be unlocked.Ĭhristopher Kemp presents an ode to ambergris and covers in rich detail the history and purpose of a material so unassuming in appearance that one could overlook it as nothing more than your average beach debris. 'Floating Gold: A Natural (& Unnatural) History of Ambergris' offers a comprehensive guide to one of perfumery's most rare and mysterious materials. If, like me, your knowledge on the subject of ambergris could sit neatly on the head of a pin, then molecular biologist and scientific columnist Christopher Kemp may have written the book just for you. But it had a strong door, which was unusual and difficult to categorize. ![]() It was unremarkable in appearance: a mottled white and gray color, irregular in shape, slightly flattened, and about the size of a football. ![]()
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