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Author
Publisher
Walker and Co
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
viii, 294 p. : ill., maps (some col) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cod, Mark Kurlansky's third work of nonfiction and winner of the 1999 James Beard Award, is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the Icelandic sagas?...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Outlines the history of fishing for and consuming codfish from the time of the Vikings through the present. Includes discussions of the cod's life cycle, over fishing, and recipes using the fish.
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