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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell

By Mark Kurlansky
Narrated by: John H. Mayer
Unabridged — 9 hours, 57 minutes
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By Mark Kurlansky
Narrated by: John H. Mayer
Unabridged — 9 hours, 57 minutes

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“Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining.”
–The New York Times

“A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the rise and fall of the lowly oyster.”
–Rocky Mountain News

Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster.
For centuries New York was famous for this particular shellfish, which …