Mark Kurlansky

The Big Oyster

A Molluscular History of New York

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Produktbeschreibung

When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626 he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed Ellis Island in 1770. In 1842, when the novelist Charles Dickens arrived in New York, he could not conceal his eagerness to find and experience the fabled oyster cellars of New York City's slums.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 544880
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 129mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9780099477594
• ISBN-10: 0099477599
• Artikelnr.: 20982580

Autorenporträt

Mark Kurlansky is the author of Cod: a Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (winner of the Glenfiddich Award for the Best Food Book in 1997), The Basque History of the World, Salt: A World History and Choice Cuts: A Miscellany of Food Writing. He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.

Rezensionen

Kurlansky's great ability is to chose a single element as a prism through which to view the development or degeneration of culture; in this book he takes his readers from the 16th century to the present day, encompassing biology, commerce, the politics of race, history, literature, and, of course, gourmandise Erica Wagner The Times