Georgess McHargue

Recounts a mermaid's determined efforts to win the love of a whale.

"Discusses natural and embalmed mummies from the frozen mammoths of Siberia to shrunken heads in Ecuador." --

When Leigh goes to Scotland to help her aunt and uncle with the horses on their farm, she becomes involved with a local boy, the grandfather who blackmails him, and the tradition of the Horseman's Word.