Rowan Jacobsen: 10 books
The Living Shore
Rediscovering a Lost World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
In the 1990s, a marine scientist named Brian Kingzett was commissioned to survey Canada's western coast. He saw amazing sights, from the wildest, most breathtaking coasts to the smallest of marine creatures. Along the western side of Vancouver Island, Kingzett nosed into an isolated pocket beach where...
The Essential Oyster
A Salty Appreciation of Taste and Temptation
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
From Rowan Jacobsen, America's go-to expert, the author of the trailblazing A Geography of Oysters, comes the ultimate oyster guide--a gorgeous, full-color, must-have book.
A decade ago, Rowan Jacobsen wrote a book called A Geography of Oysters that celebrated the romance of oysters, the primal...
Apples of Uncommon Character
Heirlooms, Modern Classics, and Little-Known Wonders
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In his classic A Geography of Oysters, Rowan Jacobsen forever changed the way America talks about its best bivalve. Now he does the same for our favorite fruit, showing us that there is indeed life beyond Red Delicious-and even Honeycrisp. While supermarkets limit their offerings to a few waxy options,...
A Geography of Oysters
The Connoisseur's Guide to Oyster Eating in North America
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
In this passionate, playful, and indispensable guide, oyster aficionado Rowan Jacobsen takes readers on a delectable tour of the oysters of North America. Region by region, he describes each oyster's appearance, flavor, origin, and availability, as well as explaining how oysters grow, how to shuck...
by Rowan Jacobsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Rowan Jacobsen, winner of the James Beard Award, discovered the best chocolate he had ever eaten – a long-lost strain of wild cacao from the Bolivian rainforest. Heres the story of how he tracked it down, journeying by boat into the heart of Amazonia, enduring monstrous ticks, warlike ants, floods,...
by Rowan Jacobsen
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Here, James Beard award-winning author Rowan Jacobsen plumbs the secrets of Parma, Italys ham and cheese heaven.
Shadows on the Gulf
A Journey Through Our Last Great Wetland
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
In the spring of 2010, we watched oil gushing unstoppably into the
waters of the Gulf of Mexico. But as bad as the spill was, it is
only the latest chapter in a century-long story of destruction.
At
the height of BP's dispersant madness, the amount sprayed each day
merely equaled the amount of dispersant...
American Terroir
Savoring the Flavors of Our Woods, Waters, and Fields
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Why does honey from the tupelo-lined banks of the Apalachicola River have a kick of cinnamon unlike any other? Why is salmon from Alaska's Yukon River the richest in the world? Why does one underground cave in Greensboro, Vermont, produce many of the country's most intense cheeses?
The answer...
Fruitless Fall
The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time with no pollination and no fruit. The fruitless fall nearly became a reality when, in 2007, beekeepers watched thirty billion bees mysteriously die. And they continue to disappear....
by Rowan Jacobsen
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
What does Indias Kaziranga National park have that the rest of the countrys decimated reserves do not? Plenty of tigers, for starters. (The worlds highest density.) Fleets of endangered one-horned rhinos. (More than two- thirds of the remaining population.) And, since 2010, a take-no-prisoners anti-poaching...