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The Big Oyster : A Molluscular History of New York by Mark Kurlansky
29.99 NZD
34.00 (11% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
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 pollution finally destroyed the beds in the 1920s, New York was a city known for its oysters, especiall ...Show more
The Food of a Younger Land: Portrait of American Food by Mark Kurlansky
30.00 NZD
31.00 (3% off)
Category: Cooking & Food
From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Cod" and "Salt" comes a remarkable portrait of American food before World War II.
The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing by Mark Kurlansky
27.99 NZD
Category: Fishing
National Outdoor Book Award Winner for Outdoor LiteratureFrom the award-winning, bestselling author of Cod-the irresistible story of the science, history, art, and culture of the least efficient way to catch a fish. Fly fishing, historian Mark Kurlansky has found, is a battle of wits, fly fisher vs. ...Show more
What? Are These Really the Twenty Most Important Questions in Human History? by Mark Kurlansky
24.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
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 philosophy, religion, literature, policy - indeed, all of civilization - to ask what may well be the twenty ...Show more