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It has been some years since I first read this book but I still recommend it highly. Kurlansky uses his remarkable talent to weave a tapestry of scientific, historical and cultural threads relating this thirty-pound sack of protien to the Hanseatic League, the Triangle Trade, and almost every important event and entity in western European history. "...the Fish That Changed the World" indeed!
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
winelghund, September 14, 2008
It has been some years since I first read this book but I still recommend it highly. Kurlansky uses his remarkable talent to weave a tapestry of scientific, historical and cultural threads relating this thirty-pound sack of protien to the Hanseatic League, the Triangle Trade, and almost every important event and entity in western European history. "...the Fish That Changed the World" indeed!(14 of 20 readers found this comment helpful)