Cod

a biography of the fish that changed the world

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Cod

a biography of the fish that changed the world

  • 4.33 ·
  • 6 Ratings
  • 43 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 11 Have read

Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been founded on it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it, the settlement of North America was based on it. To those it has sustained, it is a treasure more precious than gold. It is the codfish, whose story – concisely and eloquently told by Mark Kurlansky – casts a fascinating and revealing fight on world history.COD spans a thousand years and four continents. From the extraordinary Basques, who first commercialized cod in medieval times, to Bartholomew Gosnold, who named Cape Cod in 1602, to Clarence Birdseye, who founded an industry on frozen cod in the 1930s; from 17th century cod wars to the story of how this once ubiquitous fish is today faced with extinction, dramatizing a global ecological crisis; from Nova Scotia and New England to Scandinavia, the coast of England, Brazil, and West Africa; Kurlansky tells a story that, through its narrow lens, open world history to readers in remarkable new ways.COD is enriched by historical photographs, drawings, and artifacts, as well as a collection of recipes, from the Middle Ages to great contemporary chefs, which tell their own piece of the legacy of the codfish.

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Jonathan Cape
Language
English
Pages
294

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2009, Penguin USA, Inc.
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
April 18, 2006, Phoenix Audio
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2001, Walker Books
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Cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world
1997, Walker and Co.
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London

Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Walker, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-282) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
333.956633
Library of Congress
PN6072.C66 K87 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii,294p. :
Number of pages
294

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Open Library
OL22082453M
Internet Archive
codbiographyoffi0000kurl
ISBN 10
0224051040
Library Thing
3726
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
1331485

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A medieval fisherman is said to have hauled up a three-foot-long cod, which was common enough at the time.
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