![]() ![]() ![]() I will admit that, as someone who has very little inherent interest in fish - I don't even eat them very much - I sometimes had a little trouble staying entirely engaged even as I fully recognized the scope and importance of the subject, but I hardly feel like I can complain that a book about fish was a little too much about fish for me. It's decently written and informative (and also contains a large number of cod-related recipes from many different times and places, if that's something you're into). In this case, the narrow subject the book revolves around is the humble codfish, which, it turns out, has indeed played a massive role in human history, as well as telling us some important things about the effect of humans on the natural world today. I think this may be one of the first books that really popularized this particular subgenre, back in 1997, which is what made it interesting to me. I often enjoy reading "microhistories": non-fiction that focuses on one very narrow subject but manages to tie that subject into much larger aspects of history and society. Books by Mark Kurlansky Salt: A World History Mark Kurlansky 5.49 - 45.89 Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World Mark Kurlansky 3.99 - 16.40 The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation Mark Kurlansky 5.79 - 41.89 The Big Oyster Mark Kurlansky 6.19 - 20.29 World Without Fish Mark Kurlansky 3.99 - 14. ![]()
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