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Who Killed the Grand Banks: The Untold Story Behind the Decimation of One of the World's Greatest Natural Resources
by Rose, Alex
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0470153873
- ISBN 13
- 9780470153871
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About This Item
Mississauga, ON: Wiley, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Cover shows minor wear. No dust jacket. Inscribed by author to previous owner on front free endpaper. 203 pages. Contents: A great English ship moored near the Grand Banks -- The cod : a short history -- Botched science and a rebel named Ransom -- Foreign devils -- Draggers and cod death -- Federal fisheries : a sad and ignoble sputter into inconsequentiality -- Death in the outports : a town called Fortune -- Requiem for the Beothuk -- Pacific salmon : going the way of the Grand Banks cod? -- Offshore oil is the new cod -- Peter Pearse, rational man, and the Prophet Daniel -- A tale of two Newfoundlands -- Appendix : The two-hundred-mile fishing limit. BAY 26.
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- Bookseller
- JKL Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1043668
- Title
- Who Killed the Grand Banks: The Untold Story Behind the Decimation of One of the World's Greatest Natural Resources
- Author
- Rose, Alex
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0470153873
- ISBN 13
- 9780470153871
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Place of Publication
- Mississauga, ON
- Date Published
- 2008
- Pages
- 206
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