Mark Kurlansky

Cod

A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World -- 30th Anniversary Edition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury USA
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 25mm x 25mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781639738618
• ISBN-10: 1639738614
• Artikelnr.: 76283917

Autorenporträt

Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of Milk!, Havana, Paper, The Big Oyster, 1968, Salt, The Basque History of the World, Cod, and Salmon, among other titles. He has received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Bon Appétit's Food Writer of the Year Award, the James Beard Award, and the Glenfiddich Award. He lives in New York City. www.markkurlansky.com

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