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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
de Kurlansky, Mark
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0802713262
- ISBN 13
- 9780802713261
- Librería
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Stamford, Connecticut, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Walker Books, 1997-06-01. Hardcover. Like New. Author inscribed to previous owner and signed first printing first edition looks unread in as new condition. Please email for photos.
Sinopsis
A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the Icelandic sagas? Cod, frozen and dried in the frosty air, then broken into pieces and eaten like hardtack. What was the staple of the medieval diet? Cod again, sold salted by the Basques, an enigmatic people with a mysterious, unlimited supply of cod. As we make our way through the centuries of cod history, we also find a delicious legacy of recipes, and the tragic story of environmental failure, of depleted fishing stocks where once their numbers were legendary. In this lovely, thoughtful history, Mark Kurlansky ponders the question: Is the fish that changed the world forever changed by the world's folly?
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Detalles
- Librería
- Griffin Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 94929
- Título
- Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
- Autor
- Kurlansky, Mark
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo Like New
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0802713262
- ISBN 13
- 9780802713261
- Editorial
- Walker Books
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1997-06-01
- X weight
- 15 oz
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Griffin Books
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Stamford, Connecticut
Sobre Griffin Books
General stock of approximately 12,000 titles with a concentration in non-fiction. The more unsual the better if we can find it. We are always buying libraries and collections in the Greater NYC and CT area including Fairfield, New Haven and Westchester counties.
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