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COD: a Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
"A loving eulogy not only to a fish, but to the people whose lives have been shaped by the habits of the fish, and whose way of life is now at an end". -- New York Newsday A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it ...Show more
Cod by Mark Kurlansky; BookSource Staff (Compiled by)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
Spanning four continents and a thousand years, Mark Kurlansky's latest book looks at the role that the cod has played in the history of the world, and offers a warning that the cod is in danger of becoming extinct.
Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Delicious Courses by Mark Kurlansky
$23.00 AUD
Category: Food
Robert Eggle finds himself standing one day in a hole in the sidewalk, rain plastering his clothes to his body, with no memory of who he is, his former life as a food critic, how he got there, or where he should go next. Trying desperately not to be unknowing to people who seem to recognize him includin ...Show more
Havana: A Subtropical Delirium by Mark Kurlansky
$36.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky. Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has co ...Show more
Havana: A Subtropical Delirium by Mark Kurlansky
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A city of tropical heat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky. Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to ...Show more
Milk! A 10,000 year old Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky
$33.00 AUD
Category: Food
Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy--with recipes throughout. According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk becam ...Show more
Paper: Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce and art. It has created civilisations, fostering the fomenting o ...Show more
Paper: Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky
$23.95 AUD
Category: Essays
From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world. Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways ...Show more
Salmon: A Fish by Mark Kurlansky
$40.00 AUD
Category: Food
Most of what we do on land ends up impacting the ocean, but never is that clearer than when we look at salmon. Centuries of our greatest assaults on nature, from overfishing to dams, from hatcheries to fish farms, from industrial pollution to the ravages of climate change, can be seen in their harrowing ...Show more
Salt - A World History by Mark Kurlansky
$28.00 AUD
Category: History
"Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilization from the beginning, and its story is a glittering often surprising part of the history of mankind. So valuable that it has often served as c ...Show more
The Core of an Onion by Mark Kurlansky
$35.00 AUD
Category: Food & Wine
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt, a delectable look at the cultural, historical, and gastronomical layers of one of the world's most beloved culinary staples--featuring original illustrations and recipes from around the world. As Julia Child once said, "It is hard to imagine ...Show more
The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing by Mark Kurlansky
$50.00 AUD
Category: Sport
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Cod--the irresistible story of the science, history, art, and culture of the least efficient way to catch a fish. Fly fishing, historian Mark Kurlansky has found, is a battle of wits, fly fisher vs. fish--and the fly fisher does not always (or often) win. T ...Show more