Mark Kurlansky Audio & Video

So much of our human body is made up of salt that we'd be dead without it.

From the prize-winning, "New York Times" bestselling author comes a provocative history that persuasively argues that the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II could have been avoided by nonviolent means.

From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world.

The singular remarkable fact about the Basques is that they still exist, best selling author Mark Kurlansky says...

Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the best-selling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic and culinary story of milk and all things dairy - with recipes throughout.

Kurlansky, the prize-winning author of Nonviolence; Salt: A World History; and The Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry, discusses his latest book, Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell.

The innocuous cod has been the subject of international wars, national diets, economies, livelihoods, and health in general...

In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history....

An Ernest Hemingway Biography Like No Other Discover Hemingway's biography through the eyes of a fellow author and journalist.

In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career...