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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
$24.95 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency | 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 | 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
Paper: Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky
$39.95 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
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
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
World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky
$24.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Announcing the paperback edition of "World Without Fish," the uniquely illustrated narrative nonfiction account--for kids--of what is happening to the world's oceans and what they can do about it. Written by Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of "Cod, Salt, The Big Oyster," and many other books, "Wo ...Show more
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