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Havana: A Subtropical Delirium by Mark Kurlansky
26.99 NZD
Category: History
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
Havana: A Subtropical Delirium by Mark Kurlansky
38.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | 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
International Night: A Father and Daughter Cook Their Way Around the World Including More Than 250 Recipes by Mark Kurlansky
36.99 NZD
Category: Cooking & Food
Once a week in the Kurlansky home, Mark spins a globe and wherever his daughter's finger lands becomes the theme of that Friday night's dinner. Their tradition of International Night has afforded Mark an opportunity to share with his daughter, Talia--and now the readers of International Night--the recip ...Show more
Milk ! - A 10,000-Year Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky
24.99 NZD
Category: History | 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
34.99 NZD
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
45.00 NZD
Category: History
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
Paper: Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky
45.99 NZD
Category: History
Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce and art. It has created civilisations, fostering the fomenting o ...Show more
Salmon: A Fish by Mark Kurlansky
42.99 NZD
Category: Environment
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 to fish farms, from industrial pollution to the ravages of climate change, can be seen in their harrowing ...Show more
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
57.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Homer called salt a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlanksy so brilliantly relates in his world- encompassing new book, salt has shaped civilization from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of mankind. So valua ...Show more
Salt - A World History by Mark Kurlansky
32.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"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 civilization from the beginning, and its story is a glittering often surprising part of the history of mankind. So valuable that it has often served as c ...Show more
The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky
27.95 NZD
32.99 (15% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
They are a mythical people, almost an imagined people, writes Kurlansky. Signs of their civilization exist well before the arrival of the Romans in 218BC.