Cod_ A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World - Mark Kurlansky [0]
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Title Page
Copyright Page
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
THE CORRECT WAY TO FLUSH A COD
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Praise for Cod
“A subject as mighty and tragic as this deserves an excellent biographer, and in Mark Kurlansky, cod has found one. Beautifully written and elegantly illustrated ... Kurlansky’s marvelous fish opus stands as a reminder of what good non-fiction used to be: eloquent, learned, and full of earthy narratives that delight and appall.”
—Toronto Globe and Mail
“In the end the book stands as a kind of elegy, 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.”
—Newsday
“What a prodigious creature is the cod. Kurlansky’s approach is intriguing—and deceptively whimsical. This little book is a work of no small consequence.”
—Business Week
“An elegant brief history ... related with vast brio and wit.”
—Los Angeles Times
“In the story of the cod, Mark Kurlansky has found the tragic fable of our age—abundance turned to scarcity through determined shortsightedness. This classic history will stand as an epitaph and a warning.”
—Bill McKibben
“This eminently readable book is a new tool for scanning world history.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“In this fascinating story of cod, written in a flowing, poetic prose, the author takes you back to the ancient Basque fisherman and the recipes of the fourteenth-century Taillevent, the eighteenth-century Hannah Glasse, and the nineteenth-century Alexandre Dumas. This exceptional book entertainingly reveals the importance of this wonderful fish in history.”
—Jacques Pepin
“One emerges from Mark Kurlansky’s little book with a feeling that the codfish not only changed the world during the past one thousand years but seemed to define it.”
—Ocean Navigator
“A readable, credible, and at times incredible tale.”
—Saveur
“One helluva fish.”
—Entertainment Weekly
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COD
Mark Kurlansky worked for several years on commercial fishing boats, and subsequently became a journalist, covering beats in Eastern and Western Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America for the Chicago Tribune and the International Herald Tribune. He has written for magazines including Harper’s, Audubon, and The New York Times Magazine, and contributes a column on food history to Food & Wine magazine. In addition to Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, he is the author of A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny, A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry, The Basque History of the World, and Salt. He lives in New York City.
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