Mark Kurlansky

Born December 7, 1948

From Hartford, Connecticut, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes nonfiction

Mark Kurlansky is an American journalist and writer of general interest non-fiction. He has written a number of books of fiction and non-fiction. - Wikipedia

Quotes

“Without the music to shout over, few people bothered saying anything.”
p. 7
“All revolutions are to some degree about money.”
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, Chapter 6
“To a cod, ocean floors mean safety. That is why they were rendered commercially extinct by bottom draggers.”
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, p. 10
“Just three years short of the 500-year anniversary of the reports of Cabot’s men scooping up cod in baskets, it was over. Fishermen had caught them all.”
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, Chapter 11
“It is harder to kill off fish than mammals. But after 1,000 years of hunting the Atlantic cod, we know that it can be done.”
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, Chapter 14

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Books by Mark Kurlansky in order

Books by Mark Kurlansky in the order they were published, from A Chosen Few (1994) to Cheesecake (2025).

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