Mark Kurlansky, geboren 1948, ist Autor und arbeitet als freier Journalist, unter anderem für <I>The International Herald Tribune</I>, <I>Time Magazine</I> und <I>Harper’s</I>. Er war Europakorrespondent, ist Creative-Writing-Lehrer und in der Journalistenausbildung tätig. Als Gastdozent veranstaltet er an diversen Universitäten Seminare zu historischen und Umweltthemen. Von seinen über 20 Kinder- und Sachbüchern erschienen auf deutsch: <I>Kabeljau. Der Fisch, der die Welt veränderte</I> (1999), <I>Die Basken</I> (2000), <I>Salz. Der Stoff, der die Welt veränderte</I> (2002), <I>1968. Das Jahr, das die Welt veränderte</I> (2005).
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53 E-böcker av Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky: Basque History Of The World
They are a mythical people, almost an imagined people, writes Mark Kurlansky. Settled in a corner of France and Spain in a land marked on no maps except their own, the Basques are a nation without a …
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Mark Kurlansky: Salt
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Cod comes the dramatic, human story of a simple substance, an element almost as vital as water, that has created fortunes, provoked revolutions, …
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Mark Kurlansky: Cod
Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been based on it, economies have depended on it, and the settlement of North America was driven by it. Cod, it …
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Kurlansky Mark Kurlansky: Hank Greenberg
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, the remarkable life story of the first Jewish superstar athlete, by New York Times best-selling author Mark Kurlansky One of the reasons baseball fans so …
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€12.62
Mark Kurlansky: Boogaloo On 2nd Avenue
It’s the boom years of the 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels outside his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighbourhood. While he tries to decide whether he …
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€8.99
Mark Kurlansky: Nonviolence
The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare. According to this view, all the important ideas and significant changes of humankind occured as part of an effort to win …
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Mark Kurlansky: 1968
A fascinating account combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time Uncut It was the year of sex and drugs and rock and …
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Mark Kurlansky: Last Fish Tale
Will most of the major fisheries of the world be exhausted by 2048, as has been claimed? Have the number of large fish in the ocean decreased by 90 per cent over the past 50 years, as has been …
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€14.99
Mark Kurlansky: Big Oyster
When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626 he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed Ellis Island in 1770. From the Minuit purchase until …
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Mark Kurlansky: Choice Cuts
The winner of the Glenfiddich Best Food Book Award leads is on a dazzling culinary tour around the world and through history – from the fifth century BC to the present day. Presented by subject – …
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Mark Kurlansky: Cod
’Who would ever think that a book on cod would make a compulsive read? And yet this is precisely what Kurlansky has done’ Express on Sunday The Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have …
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Mark Kurlansky: Salt
Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is …
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Mark Kurlansky: Basque History Of The World
The Basques are Europe’s oldest people, their origins a mystery, their language related to no other on Earth, and even though few in population and from a remote and rugged corner of Spain and …
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€10.99
Kurlansky Mark Kurlansky: Milk!
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 …
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Kurlansky Mark Kurlansky: Bugs in Danger
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. …
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Bernd Brunner: Winterlust
“Mr. Brunner’s winning book is a reassuring, nostalgic reminder that winter is the season of both play and regeneration.”—Wall Street Journal
In Winterlust, a farmer painstakingly photographs five …
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Mark Kurlansky: Milk
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
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with recipes throughout
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Kurlansky Mark Kurlansky: Battle Fatigue
Growing up in the years following World War II, Joel Bloom always played soldiers with his friends. But by the time he’s eighteen, the Vietnam War is in full swing, and it’s not as simple as the war …
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Kurlansky Mark Kurlansky & Kurlansky Talia Kurlansky: International Night
From celebrated food writer Mark Kurlansky, a savory trip across the globe for parents and kids, with delicious and accessible recipes and tidbits both cultural and historical.Once a week in the …
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Kurlansky Mark Kurlansky: Havana
A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence–a city that always surprises–Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark …
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Kurlansky Mark Kurlansky: What?
What is What? Could it be that noted author Mark Kurlansky has written a very short, terrifically witty, deeply thought-provoking book entirely in the form of questions? A book that draws on …
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Mark Kurlansky: Paper: Paging Through History
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 piec …
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€17.99
Mahatma Gandhi: Gandhi on Non-Violence
An essential compendium for understanding Gandhi’s profound legacy.
’One has to speak out and stand up for one’s convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.’—Mahatma Gandhi …
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Mark Kurlansky: Salmon
Most of what we do on land ends up impacting the ocean, but never is that clearer than when we look at salmon. Centuries of our greatest assaults on nature, from overfishing to dams, from hatcheries …
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Anthony Bourdain & Matthew Fort: Lonely Planet A Moveable Feast
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 …
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Mark Kurlansky: Salmon
"Henry David Thoreau wrote, ’Who hears the fishes when they cry?’ Maybe we need to go down to the river bank and try to listen."In what he says is the most important piece of environmental …
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Mark Kurlansky: Importance of Not Being Ernest
The New York Times-bestselling author of Salt examines the intersections between his life and Ernest Hemingway’s in this mix of travel memoir and history.By a series of coincidences, Mark Kurlansky’s …
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Mark Kurlansky: Las Estrellas Orientales
’Este es un clásico de Kurlansky: erudito, impredecible, compasivo, y se lee compulsivamente. . . . Una reveladora meditación sobre el deporte, la nación, y también sobre el mundo’.
-Junot Díaz, …
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Kurlansky Mark Kurlansky: Core of an Onion
An Eater Best Food Book of 2023A Smithsonian Best Food Book of 2023From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt, a delectable look at the cultural, historical, and gastronomical layers …
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€17.76
Eleanor Clark: Oysters of Locmariaquer
Winner of the National Book Award“What an elegant book this is, starting with that most elegant of creatures, the Belon oyster. . . . [Clark’s] fantastic blending of science and art, history …
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