The Big Oyster - Mark Kurlansky
History on the Half Shell
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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 until the early 1900s played such a dominant a role...
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2007 Uitgever: Random House Trade Paperbacks 336 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0345476395 ISBN-13: 9780345476395Koop dit boek tweedehands
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