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Spring 2012
Contents
Cover image:Cover design byCatalog design by Alice Reimann and Mary Shanahan
Relics
Travels in Nature’s Time Machine
Piotr Naskrecki
 With a Foreword by Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-56870-6Cloth $45.00
/£29.00
Mutants and Mystics
Science Fiction, Superhero Comics,and the Paranormal
 Jeffrey J. Kripal
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45383-5Cloth $29.00
/£18.50
Deceptive Beauties
The World of Wild Orchids
Christian Ziegler 
 With an Introduction by Michael Pollan and aForeword by Natalie Angier
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-98297-7Cloth $45.00
/£29.00
The Art of Medicine
Over 2,000 Years of Images andImagination
 Julie Anderson, Emm Barnes, andEmma Shackleton
Edited by Nadine Monem With a Foreword by Antony Gormley 
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-74936-5Cloth $50.00
cusa
The Iliad of Homer
Homer 
Translated by Richmond Lattimore With a new Introduction and Notesby Richard Martin
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47049-8Paper $15.00
/£9.50
Bernini
His Life and His Rome
Franco Mormando
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53852-5Cloth $35.00
/£22.50
Recently Published
General Interest 1Special Interest 21Paperbacks 77Distributed Books 104Ordering Information 286 Author Index 287Title Index 289
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Floating Gold 
ha uck ach cac a. Wh  u  cc , ca alu, adccc pal, Kp’ k ally uc h c  h luad aday u. H k llk h ll  a l.”—Phlp Ha,auh  
The Whale
Chph Kp
is a molecular biologist who currently lives in Grand Rapids,Michigan, with his wie and two sons. He has worked as a columnist or
Cincin- nati CityBeat,
and his science writing has appeared on
Salon.
 A Natural (and Unnatural) History o Ambergris
Floating Gold
CHristoPHer KemP
P
reternaturally hardened whale dung is not the rst image that comes to mind when we think o perume, otherwise a symbolo glamour and allure. But the key ingredient that makes thesophisticated scent linger on the skin is precisely this bizarre digestiveby-product—ambergris. Despite being one o the world’s most expensivesubstances (its value is nearly that o gold and has at times in history been triple it), ambergris is also one o the world’s least known. But  with this unusual and highly alluring book, Christopher Kemp promisesto change that by uncovering the unique history o ambergris.A rare secretion produced only by sperm whales, which have aondness or squid but an inability to digest their beaks, ambergris isexpelled at sea and foats on ocean currents or years, slowly transorm-ing, beore it sometimes washes ashore looking like a nondescript waxy pebble. It can appear almost anywhere but is ound so rarely it might as well appear nowhere. Kemp’s journey begins with an encounter on aNew Zealand beach with a giant lump o aux ambergris—determinedater much excitement to simply be lard—that inspires a comprehen-sive quest to seek out ambergris and its story. He takes us rom the wild, rocky New Zealand coastline to Stewart Island, a remote, wind-swept island in the southern seas, to Boston and Cape Cod, and backagain. Along the way, he tracks down the secretive collectors and trad-ers who populate the clandestine modern-day ambergris trade. 
 Floating Gold 
is an entertaining and lively history that not only covers these precious gray lumps and those who covet them, but alsopresents a highly inormative account o the natural history o whales,squid, ocean ecology, and even a history o the perume industry.Kemp’s obsessive curiosity is inectious, and eager readers will eel asthough they have stumbled upon a precious bounty o this intriguingsubstance.
NATURE HISTORYANz
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-43036-2Clo $22.50
/£14.50MAY232 ., 12 color lates, 21 haltones6 x 9
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