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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
$19.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"Cod" spans a thousand years and four continents. From the Vikings, who pursued the codfish across the Atlantic, and the enigmatic Basques, who first commercialized it in medieval times, to Bartholomew Gosnold, who named Cape Cod in 1602, and Clarence Birdseye, who founded an industry on frozen cod in t ...Show more
Havana: A Subtropical Delirium by Mark Kurlansky
$36.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky. Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has co ...Show more
Milk ! - A 10,000-Year Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy--with recipes throughout. According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk becam ...Show more
Milk! A 10,000 year old Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy--with recipes throughout. According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk becam ...Show more
Paper: Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce and art. It has created civilisations, fostering the fomenting o ...Show more
Paper: Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky
$23.95 AUD
$26.95 (11% off)
Category: History
From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world. Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways ...Show more
Salmon: A Fish by Mark Kurlansky
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Most of what we do on land ends up impacting the ocean, but never is that clearer than when we look at salmon. Centuries of our greatest assaults on nature, from overfishing to dams, from hatcheries to fish farms, from industrial pollution to the ravages of climate change, can be seen in their harrowing ...Show more
Salt - A World History by Mark Kurlansky
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilization from the beginning, and its story is a glittering often surprising part of the history of mankind. So valuable that it has often served as c ...Show more
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