One would think that eating cod would be more enjoyable than reading
about them. This is not the case in Mark Kurlansky's book entitled Cod: A
biography of the Fish That Changed the World. Before reading this book I
was wondering to myself how an author like Kurlansky could make a book
about cod so fascinating and very hard to put down. In my opinion,
Kurlansky portrays one of the most mundane items and transforms it into
an engaging and informing text that is truly easy to read. To give a
brief synopsis, this book takes the reader from low impact commercial
fishing of ancient Basque fishermen, through the Cod Wars between
England and Iceland, to the destructive power of modern fisheries.
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