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“Learned and full of earthy narratives that delight and appall.”
Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Winner of the James Beard Award
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year Selection
Author Mark Kurlansky pleasantly surprised the world with this engaging bestseller that garnered rave reviews from critics and casual readers alike. His subject for this whimsical biography is the codfish, a species remarkable for its influence on humanity.
Cod, Kurlansky argues, has driven economic, political, cultural and military thinking for centuries in the lands surrounding the Atlantic Ocean. Nations like England and Germany have waged wars for cod. Vikings survived on frozen cod during their expeditions to the present America. And, it turns out, European explorers were driven toward North America in pursuit of this humble fish.
Kurlansky fills this biography with fascinating anecdotes that show cod surfacing time and again throughout history. The book also serves as a wake-up call, alerting us that the species has nearly been fished out.
Richard M. Davidson delivers a reading that is often amusing and always enlightening.
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