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ISBN: 9780099284130 - The Basque History of the World

The Basque History of the World
Mark Kurlansky

ISBN10: 0099284138 ISBN13: 9780099284130
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Nov 2000
They are a mythical people, almost an imagined people, writes Kurlansky. Signs of their civilization exist well before the arrival of the Romans in 218BC. Their forbidden tongue is equally mysterious, it is related to no other, but today the... More

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Salt
Mark Kurlansky

ISBN10: 0099281996 ISBN13: 9780099281993
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Mar 2003
Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. From the rural Sichuan province where the last home-made soya sauce is made to the Cheshire brine springs that supplied salt around the globe, the author blends... More

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What?
Mark Kurlansky

ISBN10: 1408815753 ISBN13: 9781408815755
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 06 Jun 2011
Considers the work of Confucius, Plato, Shakespeare, Descartes, Nietzsche, Freud, Hemingway, Emily Dickinson, the Talmud, Charles de Gaulle, Virginia Woolf, and others, distilling the deep questions of life to their sparkling essence. What is What? More

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Battle Fatigue
Mark Kurlansky

ISBN10: 1408826917 ISBN13: 9781408826911
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Nov 2011
In his first teen novel, bestselling author Mark Kurlansky exposes the complexity of war for all generations Growing up in the years following World War II, Joel Bloom always played soldiers with his friends. But by the time he's eighteen... More

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ISBN: 9780761165941 - World without Fish

World without Fish
Mark Kurlansky

ISBN10: 0761165940 ISBN13: 9780761165941
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20 Apr 2011
Gives a step-by-step account of what would happen if fish became extinct. This book outlines a plan for remedying the situation. It includes a fifteen-page graphic novel (each page is a chapter opener) that tells the fictional story of the... More

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Edible Stories
Mark Kurlansky

ISBN10: 1906142874 ISBN13: 9781906142872
Publisher: Gibson Square Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Oct 2011
A surprising novel about the power of food, like Perfume crossed with Robert Altman's Short Cuts. Robert Eggle finds himself standing one day in a hole in the sidewalk, rain plastering his clothes to his body, with no memory of who he is... More

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Cod
Mark Kurlansky

ISBN10: 0099268701 ISBN13: 9780099268703
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 May 1999
From the Vikings to Clarence Birdseye, the author introduces the explorers, merchants, writers, chefs and fisherman, whose lives have been interwoven with the prolific fish. He chronicles the cod wars of the 16th and 20th centuries. More

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The Big Oyster
Mark Kurlansky

ISBN10: 0099477599 ISBN13: 9780099477594
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Apr 2007
When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626, he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed Ellis Island in 1770. From the Minuit purchase until pollution finally destroyed the beds in the... More

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ISBN: 9780761156079 - World without Fish

World without Fish
Mark Kurlansky

ISBN10: 0761156070 ISBN13: 9780761156079
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Apr 2011
Issues a call to action to kids ages 10 and up, by outlining what will happen within the next fifty years if the ill effects of over-fishing, pollution, and climate change aren't addressed soon. The author gives a step-by-step account of what... More

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Choice Cuts
Mark Kurlansky

ISBN10: 0099449978 ISBN13: 9780099449973
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 May 2004
Including an introduction about the history of food writing, this book is illustrated throughout with the author's own pen and ink drawings. It includes Cato, whose second century BC practical guide to rural life, "De Agricultura", one of the... More

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