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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
de Mark Kurlansky
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140275010
- ISBN 13
- 9780140275018
- Librería
-
Excelsior, Minnesota, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Penguin Books, 2010-08-18. Paperback. Very Good. 7x5x0. Clean, solid copy with no writing or marks to text. Cover has slight wear to surface and corner tips. Binding tight and square; no creases to spine. Books that sell for $9 or more ship in a box; under $9 in a bubble mailer. Expedited and international orders may ship in a flat rate envelope rather than a box due to cost constraints. All US-addressed items ship with complimentary delivery confirmation.
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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- Librería
- Lake Country Books and More
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- CE4170309029
- Título
- Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
- Autor
- Mark Kurlansky
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0140275010
- ISBN 13
- 9780140275018
- Editorial
- Penguin Books
- Lugar de publicación
- E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.s.a.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2010-08-18
- Tamaño
- 7x5x0
- Catálogos del vendedor
- History:Maritime;
- X weight
- 8 oz
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