The Cod's Tale

Name: The Cod's Tale
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Mark Kurlansky
ISBN: 9781470355821

Author: Mark Kurlansky

Narrator: John McDonough

Unabridged: 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/18/2013

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

The cod is a large, ugly fish that spends its life with its big mouth wide open for food. For centuries, so many cod lived in the Atlantic Ocean they couldn't swim without bumping into each other. They were so plentiful that they became the most important fish in many cultures. Best-selling author Mark Kurlansky brings history to life with this entertaining story of how a single fish changed the world.

About Mark Kurlansky

Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling and James A. Beard Award–winning author of 1968: The Year That Rocked the World; Salt: A World History; The Basque History of the World; Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World; The White Man in the Tree (a collection of short stories); and several other books. Boogaloo on Second Avenue is his first novel. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by اليازية

**طالعت الكتاب المترجم إلى الصينية** بشكل العام القصة خفيفة والرسومات أكثر من ممتازة لتعليم القارئ الصغيرة مسيرة الصيد وحياة هذه السمكة -- اعتقدت من الرسومات في البداية أنها سمكة شبوط، ولكنني لست متأكدة من ترجمة cod آمل أن أقرأها مرة أخرى بفهم أعمق للنص.......more

Goodreads review by Joel

"They actually made an audiobook about a type of fish?!" This seemed so ridiculous that I became curious. Then I read so many positive reviews about it I was amazed and had to read it for myself. (by the way when I say "read" I almost always mean "listen") This book is about history and how history......more

Goodreads review by Emma

In the nonfiction picture book adaptation of Kurlansky’s New York Times bestseller, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, a younger group of readers will be exposed to the significant history of this very ugly fish. The book traces the influence of cod in the lives of Europeans and Am......more