Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

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V knige Marka Kurlanski skromnaya treska stanovitsya glavnym personazhem mirovoy istorii. Radi treski yevropeytsy nachali peresekat' Atlantiku i imenno blagodarya treske stol' dal'niye plavaniya stali vozmozhny. Iz-za treski velis' voyny i nachinalis' revolyutsii, ona sluzhila osnovoy ratsiona tselykh narodov, ot neye zaviseli ekonomiki raznykh stran, i kolonizatsiya Severnoy Ameriki proizoshla vo mnogom blagodarya yey. Avtor znakomit chitateley s lyud'mi, ch'ya zhizn' tesno svyazana s etoy unikal'noy ryboy, issledovatelyami, torgovtsami, pisatelyami, shef-povarami i, konechno, rybakami. On rasskazyvayet o treskovykh voynakh XVI i XX vekov, delitsya retseptami raznykh epokh i pokazyvayet nam samu tresku yeye povadki, evolyutsiyu i, v konechnom schete, tragediyu. Treska stoletiyami kormila cheloveka, no teper' nuzhdayetsya v yego pomoshchi: zapasy ryby, kazavshiyesya neistoshchimymi, prakticheski issyakli.

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