"Salt: A World History" von Mark Kurlansky ist eine faszinierende Reise durch die Geschichte des Salzes. Das Buch untersucht, wie diese scheinbar einfache Substanz eine entscheidende Rolle in der Entwicklung von Zivilisationen auf der...

In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author of SALT and COD, THE BIG OYSTER, 1968, and MILK, among many others, employs his signature...

"Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man" von Mark Kurlansky ist eine Biografie über Clarence Birdseye, den Erfinder der modernen Tiefkühlkost. Das Buch beleuchtet Birdseyes Leben und seine zahlreichen Abenteuer als Naturforscher und...

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 beleuchtet. Kurlansky beschreibt, wie dieser Fisch nicht nur eine wichtige Nahrungsquelle...

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 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...