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1968: The Year that Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky
55.00 NZD
59.95 (8% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: 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, Prague Spring, the Chicago convention, the anti-war movement and the Tet Offensive, the student rebellion that paralyzed France, Civil Rights, the generation gap, the begi ...Show more
1968: The Year that Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky
27.95 NZD
32.99 (15% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | 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
A Moveable Feast 2e by Lonely Planet Food Staff; Anthony Bourdain; Matthew Fort; Stefan Gates; Don George; Mark Kurlansky; David Lebovitz; Matt Preston; Andrew Zimmern
26.99 NZD
Category: Lonely Planet | Series: Lonely Planet Travel Literature Ser.
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 heartland, from mutton in Mongolia to couscous in Morocco to tacos in Tijuana - on the road, food nourishe ...Show more
Battle Fatigue by Mark Kurlansky
19.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Reading Level: From 12
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 games he played when he was a child. Old enough to be drafted, Joel loves his country, but he knows tha ...Show more
Big Oyster: New York in the World - A Molluscular History by Mark Kurlansky
36.99 NZD
39.99 (7% off)
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
Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man by Mark Kurlansky
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye encountered an age-old problem: bad food and an unappealing, unhealthy diet. However, he observed that fresh vegetables wetted and left outside in the Arctic winds froze in a way that maintained their integrity after thawing. As a res ...Show more
Boogaloo On 2nd Avenue by Mark Kurlansky
26.99 NZD
29.99 (10% off)
Category: General 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
54.95 NZD
59.95 (8% off)
Category: Fiction
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
Choice Cuts - A miscellany of food writing by Mark Kurlansky
27.99 NZD
32.95 (15% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From Mark Kurlansky, bestselling and award- winning author of Cod, comes a lively, insightful anthology of food writing from ancient to contemporary writers. Choice Cuts opens with an introduction about the history of food writing by Kurlansky and the book is illustrated throughout with his own pen and ...Show more
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
40.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | 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
27.99 NZD
Category: General 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