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1968: The Year that Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky
$27.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
It was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. It was also the year of the Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy assassinations, the Chicago Convention, The Tet Offensive, the French student rebellion, Civil Rights, the generation gap, the birth of the Women's movement and the beginning of the end f ...Show more
Big Oyster: New York in the World - A Molluscular History by Mark Kurlansky
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626 - his first New York real estate killing - 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 centuries of pollution finally destroyed the beds in the 1920s ...Show more
Boogaloo On 2nd Avenue by Mark Kurlansky
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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. In between paralyzing bouts of claustrophobia, Nathan wonders whether he should cheat on his wife with Karoline, a German pastry maker whose pare ...Show more
Boogaloo on Second Avenue by Mark Kurlansky
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A vivid, funny, exuberantly textured debut novel about a tight-knit, ethnically diverse New York neighbourhood on the brink of change, from the bestselling author of Cod, Salt and 1968. It's the boom years of the 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels outside his suddenl ...Show more
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"Cod" spans a thousand years and four continents. From the Vikings, who pursued the codfish across the Atlantic, and the enigmatic Basques, who first commercialized it in medieval times, to Bartholomew Gosnold, who named Cape Cod in 1602, and Clarence Birdseye, who founded an industry on frozen cod in t ...Show more
Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Delicious Courses by Mark Kurlansky
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Robert Eggle finds himself standing one day in a hole in the sidewalk, rain plastering his clothes to his body, with no memory of who he is, his former life as a food critic, how he got there, or where he should go next. Trying desperately not to be unknowing to people who seem to recognize him includin ...Show more
Havana: A Subtropical Delirium by Mark Kurlansky
$36.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
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 Kurlansky. Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has co ...Show more
Havana: A Subtropical Delirium by Mark Kurlansky
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
A city of tropical heat, 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 Kurlansky. Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to ...Show more
Milk ! - A 10,000-Year Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky
$22.99 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Reading Level: very good
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 becam ...Show more
Milk! A 10,000 year old Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
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 becam ...Show more
Nonviolence by Mark Kurlansky
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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 were put forward in an effort to win one violent bloody conflict or another. This approach to history is only one of many examples of how so ...Show more
Nonviolence - The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky
$24.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
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 occurred as part of an effort to win one violent, bloody conflict or another. This approach to history is only one of many examples of how s ...Show more