Cod
1997 · 304 pages
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.
★ 4.5
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The World-Ending Fire
The Essential Wendell Berry
2017 · 368 pages
An economy that uses up land and people is not efficient but suicidal, Berry argues. He writes from a Kentucky hillside he farms with horses, and insists eating is an agricultural act.
★ 5.4
Dune
1965 · 528 pages
Arrakis is a desert planet of sandworms, holding the only supply of the spice that makes interstellar travel possible. Paul Atreides arrives as a duke's son and the Fremen call him messiah.
★ 6.8