“When they catch sight of one [a dead whale filled with ambergris], they haul it ashore with iron grapnels attached to stout ropes...

Abalone is a name for the many members of a large family of marine molluscs, the Haliotidae. Haliotidae translates into “the ears of the...

We can’t travel far these days, but there’s still the travel shows, past and present (well, mostly past!) reminding us of the opportuniti...