Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been founded on it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it, the settlement of North America was based on it. To those it has sustained, it is a treasure more precious than gold. It is …
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Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been founded on it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it, the settlement of North America was based on it. To those it has sustained, it is a treasure more precious than gold. It is the codfish, whose story – concisely and eloquently told by Mark Kurlansky – casts a fascinating and revealing fight on world history.COD spans a thousand years and four continents. From the extraordinary Basques, who first commercialized cod in medieval times, to Bartholomew Gosnold, who named Cape Cod in 1602, to Clarence Birdseye, who founded an industry on frozen cod in the 1930s; from 17th century cod wars to the story of how this once ubiquitous fish is today faced with extinction, dramatizing a global ecological crisis; from Nova Scotia and New England to Scandinavia, the coast of England, Brazil, and West Africa; Kurlansky tells a story that, through its narrow lens, open world history to readers in remarkable new ways.COD is enriched by historical photographs, drawings, and artifacts, as well as a collection of recipes, from the Middle Ages to great contemporary chefs, which tell their own piece of the legacy of the codfish.
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
Hardcover, 304 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 1997 by Walker & Company.
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
audio cassette
English language
Published by New Millennium Press.
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- 978-1-59007-245-5Copied ISBN!
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- 49863003
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
audio cd
English language
Published by New Millennium Press.
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- 50498476
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
audio cd
English language
Published by Phoenix Audio.
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- 978-1-59777-098-9Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 68932482
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
304 pages
English language
Published by Penguin (Non-Classics), Penguin Books.
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- 978-0-14-027501-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 39379183
Cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world
294 pages
English language
Published 1998 by Jonathan Cape.
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- 978-0-224-05104-0Copied ISBN!
Cod
electronic resource
English language
Published 2009 by Penguin USA, Inc..
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- 978-1-4406-6535-6Copied ISBN!
COD
eBook
English language
Published 2001 by Walker Books.
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- 978-0-8027-9972-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 60126758
Cod: a Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
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Published 1999 by Arrow/Children s (A Division of Random House Group).
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