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The Cod's Tale

Mark Kurlansky, S. D. Schindler

List price £6.99
Product Details
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780147512772
Published:
01 Oct 2014
Publisher:
Penguin
Dimensions:
48 pages - 229 x 273 x 15mm

Based on a New York Times bestseller, this nonfiction picture book offers a unique, fishy look at a thousand years of human civilization

What fish enabled the Vikings, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and the Pilgrims to cross the cold Atlantic Ocean to America? What fish became a staple of the medieval diet in Europe, helped spur the American Revolution, and helped the early New Englanders start making money of their own?

Based on Mark Kurlansky’s New York Times bestselling adult book Cod, this picture book details the amazing role that cod has played in human history!

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