You are invited to join the Churlyshes on their quest to the East Indies to search for all things vile…. The Search for Vile Things by Jane Hammerslough describes the highly bizarre, and often disgusting, but very real plants, animals, food, insects, customs and artifacts that Ephemera Churlyshe (explorer extraordinaire) found and documented on her most unusual adventure to the South Pacific. Did you know that sea apples vomit on their attachers when threatened? A cone snail’s venom is so toxic, it can kill a human in minutes and there are frogs and snakes that can fly?