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Cod : a biography of the fish that changed the world
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...
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New York :
Walker and Co.,
1997.
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Table of Contents:
- ch. 1.
- Race to Codlandia
- ch. 2.
- With mouth wide open
- ch. 3.
- Cod rush
- ch. 4.
- 1620: the rock and the cod
- ch. 5.
- Certain inalienable rights
- ch. 6.
- Cod war heard 'round the world
- ch. 7.
- Few new ideas versus nine million eggs
- ch. 8.
- Last two ideas
- ch. 9.
- Iceland discovers the finite universe
- ch. 10.
- Three wars to close the open sea
- ch. 11.
- Requiem for the Grand Banks
- ch. 12.
- Dangerous waters of nature's resilience
- ch. 13.
- Bracing for the Spanish Armada
- ch. 14.
- Bracing for the Canadian Armada
- Cook's tale: six centuries of cod recipes.