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Havana: A Subtropical Delirium by Mark Kurlansky
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky. Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has co ...Show more
Milk! A 10,000 year old Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy--with recipes throughout. According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk becam ...Show more
Salt - A World History by Mark Kurlansky
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Reading Level: very good
"Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilization from the beginning, and its story is a glittering often surprising part of the history of mankind. So valuable that it has often served as c ...Show more
The Big Oyster : A Molluscular History of New York by Mark Kurlansky
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | 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
What? Are These Really the Twenty Most Important Questions in Human History? by Mark Kurlansky
$19.99 AUD
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
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