Cod a Biography of the Fish That Changed the World Book Review
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
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An unexpected, energetic await at world history via the humble cod fish from the bestselling author of Common salt and The Basque History of the World
Cod
, Marker Kurlansky's 3rd piece of work of nonfiction and winner of the 1999 James Bristles Award, is the biography of a single species of fish, only information technology may besides be a globe history with this humble fish as its recurring main grapheme. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set up canvas beyond the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings consume in icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the Icelandic sagas? Cod, frozen and stale in the frosty air, then cleaved into pieces and eaten like hardtack. What was the staple of the medieval diet? Cod again, sold salted by the Basques, an enigmatic people with a mysterious, unlimited supply of cod. As we make our way through the centuries of cod history, we as well notice a delicious legacy of recipes, and the tragic story of environmental failure, of depleted fishing stocks where once their numbers were legendary. In this lovely, thoughtful history, Mark Kurlansky ponders the question: Is the fish that changed the world forever inverse by the globe'southward folly?"Every once in a while a writer of particular skill takes a fresh, seemingly improbable idea and turns out a book of pure delight. Such is the instance of Mark Kurlansky and the codfish." –David McCullough, author of The Wright Brothers and 1776
Almost the Writer
Marker Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling writer of Cod, Table salt, Newspaper, The Basque History of the World, 1968, The Big Oyster, International Nighttime, The Eastern Stars, A Continent of Islands, and The White Man in the Tree and Other Stories. He received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonviolence, Bon Appetit'south Food Writer of the Yr Honour, the James Beard Award, and the Glenfiddich Laurels. Common salt was a Los Angeles Times Volume Prize finalist. He spent ten years as Caribbean contributor for the Chicago Tribune. He lives in New York City. www.markkurlansky.com.
Praise For…
"A charming fish tale and a pretty gift for your favorite seafood melt or fishing monomaniac. But in the last assay, it's a bitter ecological fable for our time." –Los Angeles Times
"Every once in a while a writer of detail skill takes a fresh, seemingly improbable idea and turns out a book of pure delight. Such is the example of Mark Kurlansky and the codfish." –David McCullough, writer of 1776, John Adams, and The Wright Brothers
"Ane of the 25 Best Books of the Year." –The New York Public Library
"A subject as mighty and tragic as this deserves an excellent biographer, and in Marking Kurlansky, cod has establish one. Beautifully written and elegantly illustrated . . . Kurlansky'due south marvelous fish opus stands as a reminder of what good not-fiction used to be: eloquent, learned, and full of earthy narratives that delight and appall." -The Globe and Mail
"In the end the volume stands as a kind of elegy, a loving eulogy not merely to a fish, merely to the people whose lives take been shaped by the habits of the fish, and whose way of life is at present at an end." -Newsday
"What a prodigious fauna is the cod. Kurlansky's arroyo is intriguing - and deceptively whimsical. This little book is a work of no small-scale consequence." -Concern Week
"In the story of the cod, Mark Kurlansky has constitute the tragic legend of our age - affluence turned to scarcity through determined shortsightedness. This classic history will stand as an epitaph and a alarm." -Bill McKibben
"This is an extraordinary footling book, unputdownable, written in the almost lyrical, flowing style which paints bright pictures and, at the same time, punches into identify hard facts that stop you expressionless in your tracks. Who would e'er retrieve that a book on cod would make a compulsive read? And nevertheless this is precisely what Kurlansky has done "-- Sir Roy Potent ― Express on Lord's day( London)
"An engrossing and timely fiddling ballsy" ― Scotsman (Edinburgh)
"To go out and purchase a book on the subject (of cod) is to invite glances of suspicion. While a few eccentrics might recall this is a good reason to purchase several copies, for the rest of us information technology requires a certain leap of faith. Cod...amply rewards such a bound. It is compact and beautifully produced"― Postal service on Dominicus (London)
"Refreshing and invigorating, full of fascinating facts"― Independent on Sunday(London)
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