From fishing ports in New England and Newfoundland to coastal skiffs, schooners, and factory ships across the Atlantic from Iceland and Scandinavia to the coasts of England, Brazil, and West Africa, Mark Kurlansky tells a story that brings world history and human passions into captivating focus. And he brings to life the cod itself: its personality, habits, extended family, and ultimately the tragedy of how the most profitable fish in history is today faced with extinction. He embellishes his story with gastronomic detail, blending in recipes and lore from the Middle Ages to the present. In the book Kurlansky examines the history of cod and the impact the species. He chronicles the fifteenth-century politics of the Hanseatic League and the cod wars of the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. Cod: A Biography of a Fish that Changed the World is a book by Mark Kurlansky. From the Vikings, who pursued the codfish across the Atlantic, and the enigmatic Basques, who first commercialized it in medieval times, to Bartholomew Gosnold, who named Cape Cod in 1602, and Clarence Birdseye, who founded an industry on frozen cod in the 1930s, Mark Kurlansky introduces the explorers, merchants, writers, chefs, and of course the fishermen, whose lives have interwoven with this prolific fish. An unexpected, energetic look at world history on sea and land from the bestselling author of Salt and The Basque History of the WorldCod, Mark Kurlanskys. 'Cod' spans a thousand years and four continents. A major commodity in the European market during the discovery of the New World, cod went on to cause. And he brings to life the cod itself: its. Sectors: CDL-Oceans, Fisheries & Aquaculture Cod (1997) charts the rise and fall of the codfish. He embellishes his story with gastronomic detail, blending in recipes and lore from the Middle Ages to the present.

Cod fish that changed the world