Cod: A Biography Of The Fish That Changed The World - Hardcover

Kurlansky, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0676970613 ISBN 13: 9780676970616

Publisher: Knopf Canada, 1997

Synopsis

National Bestseller  ¸  Editors' Pick, Maclean's

About this title

About the Author

Mark Kurlansky worked for several years on commercial fishing boats in Canada and the US, and has a lifelong interest in the fisheries. He is the author of A Continent of Islands and A Chosen Few. He has written for Maclean's, Audubon, The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. He lives in New York where he is currently writing a history of the Basques.

From the Back Cover

"Books as beautifully written and elegantly illustrated as this are, unhappily, as rare as cod. Kurlansky's marvellous fish opus stands as a reminder of what good non-fiction used to be: eloquent, learned, and full of earthy narratives that delight and appall. This book yields a feast of common and uncommon truths about the greatest of all hunters, homo sapiens."-The Globe and Mail

"[A] marvellously enlightening ... concise biography that does justice to the vibrant and tragic history of the cod." -St. John's Evening Telegram

"Stephen King would be proud. In Cod, Mark Kurlansky has created a little book of horrors that is compulsively readable." -The Georgia Straight

"This remarkable and informative volume should net any number of happy readers." -Publishers Weekly

Edition details

• Publisher: Knopf Canada
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0676970613
• ISBN 13: 9780676970616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 294