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Author: Kurlansky, Mark
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by Mark Kurlansky

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Mark Kurlansky worked for several years on commercial fishing boats in Canada and the US, and subsequently became a journalist, covering beats in Eastern and Western Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America for the Chicago Tribune and the International Herald Tribune. He has written for magazines including Harper's, Audubon, and the New York Times Magazine, and contributes a column on food history to Food & Wine magazine. In addition to Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, he is the author of A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny, A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry, The Basque History of the World, and Salt: A World History. He lives in New York City.

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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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Title Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
Author Mark Kurlansky
Binding Paperback
Edition Later Printing
Pages 304
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Vintage Books Canada, Toronto
Date June 16, 1998
ISBN 9780676971118 / 0676971113
Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
Dimensions 7.13 x 5.12 x 0.64 in (18.11 x 13.00 x 1.63 cm)
Reading level 1200
Dewey Decimal Code 333.956

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"Books as beautifully written and elegantly illustrated as this are, unhappily, as rare as cod. Kurlansky's marvellous fish opus stands as a reminder of what good non-fiction used to be: eloquent, learned, and full of earthy narratives that delight and appall. This book yields a feast of common and uncommon truths about the greatest of all hunters, homo sapiens." -- The Globe and Mail

"[A] marvellously enlightening ... concise biography that does justice to the vibrant and tragic history of the cod." -- St. John's Evening Telegram

"Stephen King would be proud. In Cod, Mark Kurlansky has created a little book of horrors that is compulsively readable." -- The Georgia Straight

"This remarkable and informative volume should net any number of happy readers." -- Publishers Weekly

"A beautiful, vivacious essay on life and manners, not overlooking human folly." -- The Financial Post

"Every once in a while a writer of particular skill takes a fresh, seemingly improbable idea and turns out a book of pure delight. Such is the case of Mark Kurlansky and the codfish." -- David McCullough

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