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 (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 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