{"product_id":"cod-9780140275018","title":"Cod","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A charming fish tale and a pretty gift for your favorite seafood cook or fishing monomaniac. But in the last analysis, it’s a bitter ecological fable for our time.” –\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn unexpected, energetic look at world history via the humble cod fish from the  bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSalt\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Basque History of the  World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCod\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is the  biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history  with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the  reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic,  and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland  and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the Icelandic  sagas? Cod, frozen and dried in the frosty air, then broken into pieces and  eaten like hardtack. What was the staple of the medieval diet? Cod again, sold  salted by the Basques, an enigmatic people with a mysterious, unlimited sup","brand":"Penguin Putnam Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49399845028183,"sku":"9780140275018","price":15.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780140275018.jpg?v=1730468894","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cod-9780140275018","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}