Mark Kurlansky

Cod

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Import / Vintage
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 131mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780099268703
• ISBN-10: 0099268701
• Artikelnr.: 22405346

Autorenporträt

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