Mark Kurlansky

Cod

A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For use in schools and libraries only. A witty romp through history uses the codfish as its main character, showing how cod became the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, while also questioning how depleted codfish stocks might affect the world's future, given their impact on the past.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turtleback Books
• Bound for Schools & Libraries edition
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 124mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780606265881
• ISBN-10: 0606265880
• Artikelnr.: 36815177

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