Cod (1997) (edit title/settings)

• Rated 4 stars

“Fantastic! Great historical read and you'll be hungry for cod for months afterwards.”

• Rated 3 stars

“educational will teach you more than just about cod”

• Rated 2 stars

“He is no Bill Cronon.”

• Rated 3 stars

“One of the first books to take a slim vertical and mine a shaft of history through its study. A pretty good read.”

• Rated 1 stars

“I really did not enjoy this biography i had to read it for Geography class”

• Rated 3 stars

“A short and informative history of all things cod, Kurlansky writes sympathetically about the fish, the people who rely on it, the businesses who thrived on it, and the political powers who tussled over it. ”

• Rated 0 stars

“Chose to read this for my WHAP project. It was intriguing in the beginning but I barley got through it.

C'mon. It's a biography about fish. I wasn't hooked. ”

• Rated 5 stars

“There is no way you could ever get me to eat cod, despite my partial Norwegian background where they eat a variety of disgusting fish dishes, the most famous being lutefisk, a kind of rotten, spoiled gelatinous mess. But I loved this book. Kurlansky is another John McPhee, supplying all sorts of interesting details. Turns out cod has been extremely important to civilization and almost as essential as bread. It was easy to fish and preserve and probably made discovery of North America by the Vikings possible. Fascinating.”

• Rated 0 stars

“BORING”

• Rated 5 stars

“Great book!”