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1968: The Year That Rocked The Worldby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0224062514 (0-224-06251-4)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: '1968: The Year That Rocked The World'Book summary:Given its broad and vibrant subject, it would be quite difficult for a writer of any proficiency to pen a boring book on 1968, and Mark Kurlansky has indeed pulled together an entertaining and enlightening popular history with 1968: The Year That Rocked the World. With the Vietnam War and Soviet repression providing sparkplugs in the East and West, student movements heated up in Berkeley, Prague, Mexico City, Paris, and dozens of other hotspots. With youth in ascendancy, music, film, and athletics became generational battlegrounds between opposition forces that couldn't be more appalled with one another. Not so fortuitously, the Summer Olympics in Mexico City and a presidential election in the United States conspired to elevate the tension higher as months passed. Kurlansky is skilled at concisely capturing the personalities behind the conflicts, whether they be heartbroken Czech leader Alexander Dubcek as Eastern Bloc troops violently suppress his nation's uprising or respected veteran newsman Walter Cronkite reluctantly editorializing against the war in Vietnam. The author is more than willing to choose heroes (the doomed Robert Kennedy) and villains (victorious presidential candidate Richard Nixon), and clearly sides with the rebels in most cases. In general, Kurlansky is more adept at covering the political front than he is the equally revolutionary arts world, and it's apparent that any chapter in this book could be expanded into a book of its own. One's expectation is that captivated readers will view 1968 as a portal into a deeper exploration of a fascinating time. --Steven Stolder [via]
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The Basque History of the Worldby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0140298517 (0-14-029851-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout Historyby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0142004936 (0-14-200493-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History'Book summary:"Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature ... about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies ... and at times, even about sex." Thus Mark Kurlansky, author of the award-winning Cod and Salt, introduces Choice Cuts, his anthology of food writing throughout history. Kurlansky has cast his net very wide and presents a legion of food writers on every possible culinary subject.
The usual suspects are here, sometimes in triplicate: Brilliat Savarin on gourmets, female food-love, and how to gain weight; M.F.K. Fisher on bachelor cooking, the dislike of cabbage, and dinner at France's famed Monsieur Paul's in the 1940s; Elizabeth David on the folly of the garlic press, the glories of toast, and English pizza. But Kurlansky's trail starts much earlier with Plato on cooking (food as a branch of medicine, a notion shared by many modern advertisers), Heroditus on Egyptian dining, and, resoundingly, Mencius, a student of Confucius who, in the third century B.C., implored Chinese leaders to observe saner food and environmental policies.
There is a great deal to digest here, but readers can take small bites at their leisure. Enjoyed in this way, the book provides an endlessly fascinating glimpse of humankind's second--or is it the first?--greatest pleasure. --Arthur Boehm [via]
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A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewryby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0201489368 (0-201-48936-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the Worldby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0131938347 (0-13-193834-7)
Softcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cod'Book summary:From the Bestselling Author of Salt and The Basque History of the World
Cod, Mark Kurlanskys third work of nonfiction and winner of the 1999 James Beard Award, is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the Icelandic sagas? Cod, frozen and dried in the frosty air, then broken into pieces and eaten like hardtack. What was the staple of the medieval diet? Cod again, sold salted by the Basques, an enigmatic people with a mysterious, unlimited supply of cod. As we make our way through the centuries of cod history, we also find a delicious legacy of recipes, and the tragic story of environmental failure, of depleted fishing stocks where once their numbers were legendary. In this lovely, thoughtful history, Mark Kurlansky ponders the question: Is the fish that changed the world forever changed by the world's folly?A charming fish tale and a pretty gift for your favorite seafood cook or fishing monomaniac. But in the last analysis, its a bitter ecological fable for our time. Los Angeles TimesEvery 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 McCulloughOne of the 25 Best Books of the Year. The New York Public Library[via]
Mark Kurlansky is the author of many books including Salt, The Basque History of the World, 1968, and The Big Oyster. His newest book is Birdseye.More editions of Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World:
- Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World: ISBN 0140275010 (0-14-027501-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World: ISBN 0099288176 (0-09-928817-6)
Hardcover, Random House - Cod : A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World: ISBN 0224051040 (0-224-05104-0)
Hardcover, Random House - Cod: ISBN 0131938347 (0-13-193834-7)
Softcover, Pearson Education, Limited
- Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World: ISBN 0140275010 (0-14-027501-0)
A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destinyby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0201622319 (0-201-62231-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Edible Storiesby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0099477629 (0-09-947762-9)
Hardcover, Random House
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Last Fish Tale, the the Fate of the Atlantic and Our Disappearing Fisheriesby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0099520680 (0-09-952068-0)
Hardcover, Random House
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Nineteen Sixty Eightby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0099474832 (0-09-947483-2)
Hardcover, Random House
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Non-Violence : The History of a Dangerous Ideaby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0099494124 (0-09-949412-4)
Softcover, Random House
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The Oysters of Locmariaquerby Eleanor Clark, Mark KurlanskyISBN 0060887427 (0-06-088742-7)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oysters of Locmariaquer'Book summary:On the northwest coast of France, just around the corner from the English Channel, is the little town of Locmariaquer (pronounced "loc-maria-care"). The inhabitants of this town have a special relationship to the world, for it is their efforts that maintain the supply of the famous Belon oysters, called les plates ("the flat ones"). A vivid account of the cultivation of Belon oysters and an excursion into the myths, legends, and rich, vibrant history of Brittany and its extraordinary people, The Oysters of Locmariaquer is also an unforgettable journey to the heart of a fascinating culture and the enthralling, accumulating drama of a unique devotion.
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Salt: A World Historyby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0142001619 (0-14-200161-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Salt Headerby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0224068148 (0-224-06814-8)
Hardcover, Random House
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Salt Proofby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0224068369 (0-224-06836-9)
Softcover, Random House
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The White Man in the Tree and Other Storiesby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0099286742 (0-09-928674-2)
Softcover, Random House
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