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Mark Kurlansky
Author · 39 books
Mark Kurlansky has written, edited, or contributed to twenty books, which have been translated into twenty-five languages and won numerous prizes. His previous books Cod, Salt, 1968, and The Food of a Younger Land were all New York Times best-sellers.

Series

Books

The White Man in the Tree and Other Stories book cover

The White Man in the Tree and Other Stories

2000

Choice Cuts book cover

Choice Cuts

A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History

2002

The Food of a Younger Land book cover

The Food of a Younger Land

The South Eats

2009

Birdseye book cover

Birdseye

The Adventures of a Curious Man

2012

What? Are These the 20 Most Important Questions in Human History or Is This a Game of 20 Questions? book cover

What? Are These the 20 Most Important Questions in Human History or Is This a Game of 20 Questions?

2011

Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue book cover

Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue

2005

BIG LIES book cover

BIG LIES

from Socrates to Social Media

2022

Cod book cover

Cod

A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World

1997

The Cod's Tale

2001

1968 book cover

1968

The Year That Rocked the World

2003

Nonviolence book cover

Nonviolence

The History of a Dangerous Idea

2006

The Food of a Younger Land book cover

The Food of a Younger Land

The WPA's Portrait of Food in Pre-World War II America

2009

Milk! book cover

Milk!

A 10,000-Year Food Fracas

2018

Havana book cover

Havana

A Subtropical Delirium

2017

The Eastern Stars book cover

The Eastern Stars

How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris

2010

Bugs in Danger book cover

Bugs in Danger

Our Vanishing Bees, Butterflies, and Beetles

2019

The Big Oyster book cover

The Big Oyster

History on the Half Shell

2005

Hank Greenberg book cover

Hank Greenberg

The Hero Who Didn't Want to Be One

2011

Cheesecake book cover

Cheesecake

2025

A Continent of Islands book cover

A Continent of Islands

Searching for the Caribbean Destiny

1992

The Importance of Not Being Ernest book cover

The Importance of Not Being Ernest

My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway

2022

The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing book cover

The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing

2021

Edible Stories book cover

Edible Stories

2010

A Chosen Few book cover

A Chosen Few

The Resurrection of European Jewry

1994

Battle Fatigue book cover

Battle Fatigue

2011

Salt book cover

Salt

A World History

2002

Ready for a Brand New Beat book cover

Ready for a Brand New Beat

How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America

2013

The Story of Salt

2006

The Food of a Younger Land book cover

The Food of a Younger Land

The Far West Eats Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Northern California, Oregon, Washington

2009

World Without Fish book cover

World Without Fish

2011

The Last Fish Tale book cover

The Last Fish Tale

The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town

1998

International Night book cover

International Night

A Father and Daughter Cook Their Way Around the World *Including More than 250 Recipes*

2014

Salmon book cover

Salmon

A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate

2020

Frozen in Time book cover

Frozen in Time

Clarence Birdseye's Outrageous Idea About Frozen Food

2014

The Basque History of the World book cover

The Basque History of the World

1999

The Food of a Younger Land book cover

The Food of a Younger Land

The Middle West EatsOhio, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa,Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota, North Dakota

2009

The Core of an Onion book cover

The Core of an Onion

Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes

2023

The Food of a Younger Land book cover

The Food of a Younger Land

The Northeast Eats Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York City, New York State, Pennsylvania

2009

Paper book cover

Paper

Paging Through History

2016

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