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“The Fish That Changed the World”
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Title: Cod
Author: Mark Kurlansky
Category: Nature, Climate & Environment
Did you know a single fish species shaped empires, fueled revolutions, and nearly fed the world to extinction? Sam and Sophie sit with that question, because Mark Kurlansky's biography of cod is also a history of global trade, slavery, and overfishing.
They walk through how cod evolved in the North Atlantic and how Basques discovered the Grand…
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