Cod : a biography of the fish that changed the world
Publication Information
New York : Walker, c1997.
Physical Description
viii, 294 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Notes
Maps on endpapers.
Contents
- Prologue: sentry on the headlands (so close to Ireland)
- Race to Codlandia
- With mouth wide open
- Cod rush
- 1620: the rock and the cod
- Certain inalienable rights
- Cod war heard 'round the world
- Few new ideas versus nine million eggs
- Last two ideas
- Iceland discovers the finite universe
- Three wars to close the open sea
- Requiem for the Grand Banks
- Dangerous waters of nature's resilience
- Bracing for the Spanish Armada
- Bracing for the Canadian Armada
- A cook's tale: six centuries of cod recipes.