Mark Kurlansky: 32 books

Book cover of Edible Stories

Edible Stories

A Novel in Sixteen Parts

by Mark Kurlansky
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010

All-new stories about the food we share, love, and fight over from the national bestselling author of Cod and Salt. In these linked stories, Mark Kurlansky reveals the bond that can hold people together, tear them apart, or make them become vegan: food. Through muffins or hot dogs, an indigenous...
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Choice Cuts

A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History

by Mark Kurlansky
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012

“Every once in awhile a writer of particular skills takes a fresh, seemingly improbable idea and turns out a book of pure delight.” That’s how David McCullough described Mark Kurlansky’s Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, a work that revealed how a meal can be as important...
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City Beasts

Fourteen Stories of Uninvited Wildlife

by Mark Kurlansky
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015

All-new stories about the urban worlds where animals and humans fight, love, and find common ground, from the nationally bestselling author of Cod and Salt. In these stories, Mark Kurlansky journeys to his familiar haunts like New York’s Central Park or Miami’s Little Havana but with an...
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The Eastern Stars

How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris

by Mark Kurlansky
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010

The intriguing, inspiring history of one small, impoverished area in the Dominican Republic that has produced a staggering number of Major League Baseball talent, from an award-winning, bestselling author. In the town of San Pedro in the Dominican Republic, baseball is not just a way of life....
Book cover of A Moveable Feast
by Anthony Bourdain, Mark Kurlansky, David Lebovitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher* Life-changing food adventures around the world. From bat on the island of Fais to chicken on a Russian train to barbecue in the American heartland, from mutton in Mongolia to couscous in Morocco to tacos in Tijuana - on the road,...
Book cover of Paper: Paging Through History
by Mark Kurlansky
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016

From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today’s world. Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient...
Book cover of Salt

Salt

A World History

by Mark Kurlansky
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2003

An unlikely world history from the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfiction, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from...
Book cover of 1968: Today’s Authors Explore a Year of Rebellion, Revolution, and Change
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Mark Kurlansky, Paul Fleischman
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018

Welcome to 1968 — a revolution in a book. Essays, memoirs, and more by fourteen award-winning authors offer unique perspectives on one of the world’s most tumultuous years. Nineteen sixty-eight was a pivotal year that grew more intense with each day. As thousands of Vietnamese and Americans...
Book cover of Frozen in Time

Frozen in Time

Clarence Birdseye's Outrageous Idea About Frozen Food

by Mark Kurlansky
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014

Nonfiction for kids interested in science, biography, and early entrepreneurs, this work explores the life story of Clarence Birdseye, the man who revolutionized the frozen food industry and changed the way people eat all over the world. Adapted from Mark Kurlansky’s adult work Birdseye: The Adventures...
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Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue

A Novel of Pastry, Guilt, and Music

by Mark Kurlansky
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005

In his eagerly awaited debut novel, critically acclaimed author Mark Kurlansky entertains readers with a brilliant story bursting with the vivid events and culinary delights–even recipes–that made bestsellers out of his nonfiction works Cod, Salt, and 1968. Nathan woke up on a Friday morning...
Book cover of Las Estrellas Orientales

Las Estrellas Orientales

Como el beisbol cambio el pueblo dominicano de San Pedro deMacoris

by Mark Kurlansky
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 5, 2011

"¿Qué tienen en común Rico Carty, Alfredo Griffin, Pedro Guerrero, George Bell, Julio Franco, Juan Samuel, Sammy Sosa, Alfonso Soriano, y Robinson Canó? Que todos proceden de San Pedro de Macorís, la pequeña ciudad azucarera en la República Dominicana. ¿Una coincidencia? Difícilmente". -National...
Book cover of World Without Fish
by Mark Kurlansky
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018

A KID’S GUIDE TO THE OCEAN "Can you imagine a world without fish? It's not as crazy as it sounds. But if we keep doing things the way we've been doing things, fish could become extinct within fifty years. So let's change the way we do things!" World Without Fish is the uniquely illustrated...
Book cover of No violencia

No violencia

25 lecciones sobre una idea peligrosa

by Mark Kurlansky
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 12, 2015

Un manifiesto necesario. Un arma pacífica para cambiar el mundo. «Es mi deseo y mi plegaria que este libro no solo llame la atención de los lectores sino que también cause un efecto profundo en ellos.» Dalai Lama El movimiento de la no violencia ha sido considerado como una...
Book cover of A Chosen Few

A Chosen Few

The Resurrection of European Jewry

by Mark Kurlansky
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008

A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIR Fifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud...
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