Piece of Ambergris

Ambergris in Businessweek Magazine

Check out this article in Businessweek Magazine: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/ambergris-treasure-of-the-deep-01122012.html

I'm quoted a few times in it, and it was fun to be interviewed by the writer, Eric Spitznagel. Most importantly, though, can you beat the graphic for the article? A whale, with a newspaper and a roll of toilet paper. Priceless.

Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris

Here's the cover art for my book, folks. It'll be published on May 15, 2012 by the University of Chicago Press and will include a bunch of great photos of ambergris and some of the people I met as I searched for ambergris from New Zealand to New England.

Available on Amazon and elsewhere!! Buy it!