| 1. |  | Salt: A World History
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Price: $10.29
Customer Review:
Salt comes from the only family of rocks eaten by humans. Chloride is essentisal for digestion and respiration. Sodium, which the body, we learn, cannot manufacture, is necessary for the body to to transport nutrients and move muscles, such as the heart.
Mark Kurlansky has written the... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Price: $9.75
Customer Review:
Remember that old PBS series where connections were made between seemingly unrelated topics? This reminds me of the show ... great read of even better historical research. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
from Random House Trade Paperbacks
Price: $10.17
Customer Review:
This is a wonderful read that nonetheless will never convince beer geeks that beer writer Michael Jackson was somehow the first person to have ever considered washing down a freshly-shucked oyster with a beer.
I'm ready to order Kurlansky's "Cod" and "Salt." | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town
from Ballantine Books
Price: $16.50
Customer Review:
This guy can't write a bad book.....Cod, Salt, The Big Oyster and now this....a great run of writing for Mr. Kurlansky | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | 1968: The Year That Rocked the World
from Random House Trade Paperbacks
Price: $10.85
Customer Review:
Pastiche of acts of rebellion, primarily student-led, from 1968, without much of a theory of the causes or conditions which led to their similarities or differences.
I suspect that were the baby-boomers who came of age in the sixties not so enamored by their nostalgic memories of it, this book... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Price: $10.88
Customer Review:
Yes, it's an interesting book about an interesting subject but it does seem to go on some tangents. The inclusion of recipes (like I can find baby eels in Fayetteville) gets to be a little annoying at times. A great work to get familiar with this unique people but it's heavily colored by the... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 7. | ![]() | The Belly of Paris (Modern Library Classics)
from Modern Library
Price: $10.20
Customer Review:
Not Zola's best work by a long shot, but mostly a good read. The many pages of description, though typical of the era and of Zola's late style, end up feeling overindulgent. I read this book in small portions, and found myself frequently bored and even agrieved by the endless word-pictures of... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | The Story of Salt
from Putnam Juvenile
Price: $11.55
Customer Review:
I ordered this book for my son, who loves science, because I loved the adult version so much.
It is a fantastic abbreviation. Mark Kurlansky was brilliant to make compelling but clear kids' versions of his already excellent publications! | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Modern Library Chronicles)
from Modern Library
Price: $11.20
Customer Review:
I picked up this book because I have always been uncomfortable with violence and war in general. I felt that WWII was a just war, for example, but current events less so.
Kurlansky does a great job of detailing the futile history of war, and the potent history of nonviolence. He provides... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | Choice Cuts : A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History
from Amazon Remainders Account
Price: $9.99
Customer Review:
This collection of essays is a must-read for anyone who loves food and loves reading about food.
| 3.5 / 5.0
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