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Mark Kurlansky

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American journalist and writer

Person · Open Library

Born
1948-12-07
Works
47

Top works

  • 紙的世界史
  • 1968 (Signed)
  • Salmon
  • World Without Fish
  • Birdseye

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
GB
Active from
1949-08-12

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
210
Total plays
4,048

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Quotes

  • In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Gonzalez government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being "soft on Basques." To demonstrate the sincerity of its stance, the new government decided to have the entire twenty-three-person directorate of Herri Batasuna arrested.
  • Without the music to shout over, few people bothered saying anything. (Remarking on a power cut while in a bar in the Dominican Republic)
  • In 1968 called the "the first music born in the age of instant communication." In June 1967 the Beatles had performed the first live international concert broadcast by satellite.
  • The native s of the New York area and their residents, , are believed to have first appeared about 10,000 B.C. The oldest Atlantic , in , has been carbon-dated to about 6950 B.C. give or take a hundred years—long before the arrival of the three thousand years ago. This marks the oldest evidence of humans ever found in the .
  • Most of the fish we commonly eat, most of the fish we know, could be gone in the next fifty years. This includes salmon, , , , and .
  • To a cod, ocean floors mean safety. That is why they were rendered commercially extinct by bottom draggers.

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Official website

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