Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

An unexpected, energetic look at world history on sea and land from the bestselling author of Salt and The Basque History of the World

Cod,Mark Kurlansky’s third work of nonfiction and winner of the 1999 James Beard Award, is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason th…