Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World

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Turtleback, 1998 - 294 síður
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.

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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Mark Kurlansky
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Mark Kurlansky is the author of The Basque History of the World, the New York Times bestseller Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (among the New York Public Library's Best Books of the Year in 1998), as well as A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry; A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny, and several acclaimed works of short fiction and journalism about the Caribbean. He spent seven years as the Caribbean correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He lives in New York City.

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TitillCod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
HöfundurMark Kurlansky
ÚtgefandiTurtleback, 1998
ISBN0606265880, 9780606265881
Length294 síður
  
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