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Book · 1997 · Nonfiction

Cod

Mark Kurlansky
Penguin (Non-Classics) (Penguin Random House) · 304 pages
★ 4.5 editorial score

One fish shaped the whole Atlantic world. Kurlansky follows cod from the Basques and their secret fishing grounds through the slave-trade economies it fed to the Grand Banks collapse of 1992.

Genre
Cultural historyEconomic historyHistory
Medium
History
Subject
FoodColonialismGlobalizationThe environment
Time
1997

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