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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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Codfish, History, Literary collections, Cookery (Codfish), Cod fisheries, Cooking (Codfish), Cooking & Food, Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Kabeljaufischerei, Industria pesquera, Kabeljau, Geschichte, Cocina (Gádidos), Gádidos, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Cooking (fish), Gadidés, Histoire, Morue, Pêche commerciale, Kabeljauwen, Visserij, Eetgewoonten, Fishes, Fishes, juvenile literature, Fisheries, Fisheries, juvenile literatureEdition | Availability |
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Cod's Tale: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World!
2014, Penguin Books, Limited
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
April 18, 2006, Phoenix Audio
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
June 2002, New Millennium Press
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
June 2002, New Millennium Press
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Aug 14, 2001, Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing
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Cod: a Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
1999, Arrow/Children s (A Division of Random House Group)
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Cod: A Biography Of The Fish That Changed The World
June 16, 1998, Vintage Canada
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
July 1, 1998, Penguin (Non-Classics), Penguin Books
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Cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world
1998, Jonathan Cape
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Cod: A Biography Of The Fish That Changed The World
Jul 01, 1998, Turtleback Books
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Cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world
1997, Walker and Co.
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COD; A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FISH THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
1997, Walker
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
June 1, 1997, Walker & Company
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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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