'Who would ever think that a book on cod would make a compulsive read? In a story that brings world history and human passions into captivating focus, he shows how the most profitable fish in history is today faced with extinction.
'Who would ever think that a book on cod would make a compulsive read? In a story that brings world history and human passions into captivating focus, he shows how the most profitable fish in history is today faced with extinction.
Mark Kurlansky is the author of several bestselling non-fiction titles including Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (winner of the Glenfiddich Best Food Book Award), The Basque History of the World, Salt: A World History, 1968: The Year that Rocked the World, a short story collection The White Man in the Tree and a novel, Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue.
Inhaltsangabe
Prologue: Sentry on the Headlands (So Close to Ireland) PART ONE: A FISH TALE 1: The Race to Codlandia 2: With Mouth Wide Open 3: The Cod Rush 4: 1620: The Rock and the Cod 5: Certain Inalienable Rights 6: A Cod War Heard 'Round the World PART TWO: LIMITS 7: A Few New Ideas Versus Nine Million Eggs 8: The Last Two Ideas 9: Iceland Discovers the Finite Universe 10: Three Wars to Close the Open Sea PART THREE: THE LAST HUNTERS 11: Requiem for the Grand Banks 12: The Dangerous Waters of Nature's Resilience 13: Bracing for the Spanish Armada 14: Bracing for the Canadian Armada A COOK'S TALE: SIX CENTURIES OF COD RECIPES Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
Prologue: Sentry on the Headlands (So Close to Ireland) PART ONE: A FISH TALE 1: The Race to Codlandia 2: With Mouth Wide Open 3: The Cod Rush 4: 1620: The Rock and the Cod 5: Certain Inalienable Rights 6: A Cod War Heard 'Round the World PART TWO: LIMITS 7: A Few New Ideas Versus Nine Million Eggs 8: The Last Two Ideas 9: Iceland Discovers the Finite Universe 10: Three Wars to Close the Open Sea PART THREE: THE LAST HUNTERS 11: Requiem for the Grand Banks 12: The Dangerous Waters of Nature's Resilience 13: Bracing for the Spanish Armada 14: Bracing for the Canadian Armada A COOK'S TALE: SIX CENTURIES OF COD RECIPES Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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