Salmon. A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate, Paperback - Mark Kurlansky

The internationally bestselling author says if we can save the salmon, we can save the worldPublisher: Oneworld PublicationsAuthor(s): Mark Kurlans...

In his new global food history, the internationally bestselling author says if we can save the salmon, we can save the worldIllustrations: 8-page c...

The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare.

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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 wor...

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Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and a...

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Sent to live on a remote island in the Tanzanian half of Lake Victoria, Mark Weston finds a community grappling with one of the world's great unkno...

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