B format edition of Kurlansky's history of salt and its influence on the events of history and on the culinary traditions of nations around the world. A multi-layered blend of politics, commerce, science, religion and food writing which...

"Kabeljau. Der Fisch, der die Welt veränderte" von Mark Kurlansky ist ein Sachbuch, das die historische und wirtschaftliche Bedeutung des Kabeljaus (auch bekannt als Dorsch) untersucht. Kurlansky schildert, wie dieser Fisch über...

The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare. According to this view, all the important ideas and significant changes of humankind occured as part of an effort to win one violent, bloody conflict or...

"A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny" von Mark Kurlansky ist ein Sachbuch, das sich mit der vielfältigen und komplexen Geschichte sowie der Kultur der Karibikinseln auseinandersetzt. Kurlansky untersucht die...

A work of global food history in which the author presents the extent to which saving the salmon could save the world. Kurlansky also wrote the food histories "Cod" and "Salt". von Kurlansky, Mark

For the past two millennia, the ability to produce paper in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce and art. It has created civilisations, fostering the fomenting of...

From Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod, Salt, Birdseye, and Paper-the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people Straddling a small corner of Spain and France in a land that is marked on no maps except their own,...

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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,...

All-new stories about the food we share, love, and fight over from the national bestselling author of Cod and Salt. In these linked stories, Mark Kurlansky reveals the bond that can hold people together, tear them apart, or make them...

In The Importance of Not Being Ernest, acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky focuses on the sprawling life and work of Ernest Hemingway while drawing parallels to his own. This memoir and biography...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "In this highly opinionated and highly readable history, Kurlansky makes a case for why 1968 has lasting relevance in the United States and around the world."-Dan Rather To some, 1968 was the year of sex, drugs, and...