Strandings : confessions of a whale scavenger
Riley, Peter (Lecturer in American literature)2022
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When Peter Riley was thirteen, a woman with blue hair and a comet tattoo asked him to help load the jaw of a sperm whale into the back of a Volvo 245. The encounter set Riley on a decades-long quest to make sense of what had happened. Enter the secretive world of whale scavengers. When a whale washes up on one of Britain's coasts, a fugitive community descends to claim trophies from the carcass. Some are driven by magical beliefs. Some are motivated by profit: there is a black market for everything from ambergris to whaletooth sex toys. But for others, the need goes much deeper. Join Riley on a tour of a stranded kingdom's weird outer reaches, where nothing is as it seems. Meet witches, pedlars, fetishists, conspiracy theorists and fallen aristocrats. And prepare for a final revelation, as the mystery of the comet woman tangles with the enigmatic symbol of Leviathan itself, beached on Britain's fatal shore.
Strandings : confessions of a whale scavenger / Peter Riley.
London : Profile Books, 2022.©2022
236 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
9781788166072 (hbk)9781788166072
599.50941599.5
English
512076
Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Animals | 599.5 RIL | Available |