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Description
A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been based on it, economies have depended on it, and the settlement of North America was driven by it”
First Sentence
A medieval fisherman is said to have hauled up a three-foot-long cod, which was common enough at the time.
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Authors & Contributors
- Mark Kurlansky (Author)
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