"A lively, anecdotal, all-encompassing history of Basque ingenuity and achievement." —Atlantic Monthly
From Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod, Salt, Birdseye, and Paper—the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people
Straddling a small corner of Spain and France in a land that is...
In The Importance of Not Being Ernest, acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky focuses on the sprawling life and work of Ernest Hemingway while drawing parallels to his own. This memoir and biography contains an in-depth analysis of the places and people in...
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“Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining.”
–The New York Times
“A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the rise and fall of the lowly oyster.”
–Rocky Mountain News
Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New...
World Without Fish is the uniquely illustrated narrative nonfiction account—for kids ages 8 to 12—of what is happening to the world’s oceans and what they can do about it.
Written by master storyteller Mark Kurlansky, World Without Fish connects all the dots—biology, economics, evolution, politics...
Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy--with recipes throughout.
According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk...
By now you've probably heard that bees are disappearing--but they aren't the only species at risk. Populations of fireflies, butterflies, and ladybugs have all been declining in recent years, too. This middle grade nonfiction explains the growth, spread, and recent declines of each of these four...
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Joining New York Times-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky's groundbreaking, award-winning Cod and Salt-a new classic-in-the-making.
When Mark Kurlansky was seventeen, he took his first job as a commercial fisherman in the Atlantic on a forty-five-foot, wooden-hulled, two-man lobster boat, thus...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “In this highly opinionated and highly readable history, Kurlansky makes a case for why 1968 has lasting relevance in the United States and around the world.”—Dan Rather
To some, 1968 was the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther...
Discover the fascinating history of salt, the rock that lives by its own rules, in this incredible nonfiction picture book perfect for young readers, based on Mark Kurlansky’s New York Times bestseller Salt: A World History!
★ "Will have young readers lifting their shakers in tribute."—Kirkus...
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In his new book for young readers Mark Kurlansky’s lens is the art of the “big lie,” a term coined by Adolf Hitler. Kurlansky has written Big Lies: From Socrates to soci...
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