Author

Mark Kurlansky

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42 books

Books

  1. Salt: A World History 2002
  2. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World 1988
  3. The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation 1991
  4. The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell 2005
  5. The Food of a Younger Land: The WPA's Portrait of Food in Pre-World War II America 2009
  6. 1968: The Year That Rocked the World 2001
  7. Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea 2006
  8. Paper: Paging Through History 2016
  9. Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man 2012
  10. World Without Fish 2011
  11. The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic & Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port & Most Original Town 1998
  12. Edible Stories 2010
  13. The Story of Salt 2006
  14. Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History 2002
  15. Havana: A Subtropical Delirium 2017
  16. The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris 2010
  17. Ready for a Brand New Beat: How Dancing in the Street Became the Anthem for a Changing America 2013
  18. Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue 2005
  19. The Cod's Tale 1997
  20. What? Are These the 20 Most Important Questions in Human History or Is This a Game of 20 Questions? 2011
  21. International Night: A Father and Daughter Cook Their Way Around the World *Including More than 250 Recipes* 2014
  22. City Beasts: Fourteen Stories of Uninvited Wildlife 2015
  23. Battle Fatigue 2011
  24. The White Man in the Tree and Other Stories 2000
  25. Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn't Want to Be One 2011
  26. Frozen in Time: Clarence Birdseye's Outrageous Idea About Frozen Food 2014
  27. A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny 1992
15 more
  1. Milk! 2018
  2. A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry 1994
  3. The Junky's Christmas: And Other Yuletide Stories 1994
  4. Cheesecake 2025
  5. Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing 2021
  6. Nineteen Sixty Eight 2006
  7. Bugs in Danger 2019
  8. World Without Fish Counter Display 6-Copy 2011
  9. Salmon 2019
  10. Core of an Onion 2023
  11. Choice Cuts 18-copy mixed floor 2004
  12. The Girl Who Swam to Euskadi 2005
  13. Importance of Not Being Ernest 2020
  14. History of Big Lies 2022
  15. Big Lies 2022

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