Mark Kurlansky's Books
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The White Man in the Tree and Other StoriesThe White Man in the Tree is a comedy of cultural misunderstandings set in the Caribbean, New York, and Paris, a novella and eight stories about...Read More
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Owings Mills Patch, May 10, 2013
...Wondering what to do on stormy summer days or while sitting on the beach? Join Irvine in reading Mark Kurlansky’s World Without Fish. Kurlansky’s book is a masterpiece on the state of the world’s oceans and the fate we are dooming them to. For a...
The Lady, May 3, 2013
...were, by a Croatian man who tried to saw a hand grenade in half. Theo Walden BIRDSEYE by Mark Kurlansky (Anchor Books, £10.99; offer price, £9.89) Biography of the man who invented the frozen pea. Clarence Birdseye worked as a fur trapper in...
Flagpole, May 1, 2013
...3D visuals and Jeff Bridges’ Cyber-Dude. Worst Title: Salt. I would rather this have been an adaptation of Mark Kurlansky’s comprehensive history of the only rock we eat rather than an adequate, female substitute for Jason Bourne. Much Better...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 17, 2013
...lesbian mother, and each chapter features a recipe that ties into the narrative. "Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky (Walker & Co., 2002). "The Grail: A Year Ambling and Shambling Through an Oregon Vineyard in Search of the Best Pinot Noir in the...
Charlotte Observer, March 29, 2013
...School of the Environment, set out explicitly to write a book in the ?commodity? genre made famous by Mark Kurlansky, whose bestsellers on cod and salt have made many a professor green with envy. Such envy is motivated not just by the astronomical sales...
Georgia Straight, March 13, 2013
...linear history of map-making—and it’s all the more readable for that, even if Garfield, unlike his peers Mark Kurlansky and Bill Bryson, refrains from making generalized observations about humanity during the course of his wanderings. Perhaps...
Nudge, March 13, 2013
...William Boyd, Donna Tartt, Elizabeth Gilbert, David Guterson, John Irving, Anthony Bourdain, William Dalrymple, Ben Macintyre, Dava Sobel, Mark Kurlansky, Chelsea Handler, Heston Blumenthal, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and 2010 Man Booker Prize winner...
Owings Mills Patch, May 10, 2013
...Wondering what to do on stormy summer days or while sitting on the beach? Join Irvine in reading Mark Kurlansky’s World Without Fish. Kurlansky’s book is a masterpiece on the state of the world’s oceans and the fate we are dooming them to. For a...
Telegraph, May 4, 2013
...question. While suitably comforted by the fact that the bibliophile Cole is reading a book called Nonviolence by Mark Kurlansky, how good is his scrummaging? Is he not better carrying, tackling and over the ball? In those facets he is quite outstanding. ...
The Lady, May 3, 2013
...were, by a Croatian man who tried to saw a hand grenade in half. Theo Walden BIRDSEYE by Mark Kurlansky (Anchor Books, £10.99; offer price, £9.89) Biography of the man who invented the frozen pea. Clarence Birdseye worked as a fur trapper in...
Osawatomie Graphic, May 1, 2013
...not for the price I’m willing to pay. I thought a lot about canning as I read Mark Kurlansky’s book, “The Food of a Younger Land.” His story is about the Federal Writers’ Project created by FDR as a “made-work” initiative for writers...
Flagpole, May 1, 2013
...3D visuals and Jeff Bridges’ Cyber-Dude. Worst Title: Salt. I would rather this have been an adaptation of Mark Kurlansky’s comprehensive history of the only rock we eat rather than an adequate, female substitute for Jason Bourne. Much Better...
Resilience, April 23, 2013
...stew. Fishing, likewise, supported many communities, but fewer all the time these days. To take one example from Mark Kurlansky’s book Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, early explorers to places like Newfoundland simply dropped...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 17, 2013
...lesbian mother, and each chapter features a recipe that ties into the narrative. "Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky (Walker & Co., 2002). "The Grail: A Year Ambling and Shambling Through an Oregon Vineyard in Search of the Best Pinot Noir in the...
