Mark Kurlansky

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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Cha...

Mark Kurlansky

You probably enjoy eating codfish, but reading about them? Mark Kurlansky has written a fabulous book--well worth your time--about a fish that probably has mattered more in human history than any other. The cod helped inspire the disc...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2006

The Big Oyster: History on the Half S...

Mark Kurlansky

As he did previously in COD: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FISH THAT CHANGED THE WORLD and in SALT: A WORLD HISTORY, historian Mark Kurlansky takes a unique, and rewarding, entry-point into the past, this time relating the rich social history of...

Abridged CD
Published: Mar 2006

The Basque: History of the World

Mark Kurlansky

The buzz about the Guggenheim Bilbão aside, the Basques seldom get good press--from the 12th-century Codex of Calixtus ('A Basque or Navarrese would do in a French man for a copper coin') to current news items about ETA, the Basque n...

Abridged CD
Published: Sep 2006

Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious...

Mark Kurlansky

While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye encountered an age-old problem: bad food and an unappealing, unhealthy diet. However, he observed that fresh vegetables wetted and left outside in the Arctic winds ...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2013
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