A History of Big Lies:  From Socrates to Social Media
Tilbury House, September 27, 2022

For ages 12 and up.  We seem to be living in an age of lying but it was not invented by social media. Lies have always been around and many of the lies on social media to day have been around for centuries. Why are there lies? How are they detected? What is their impact? and what to do about it in this age of social media.

In his new book for young readers Mark Kurlansky’s lens is the art of the “big lie,” a term coined by Adolf Hitler. Kurlansky has written Big Lies: From Socrates to Social Media for the next stewards of our world. It is not only a history but a how-to manual for seeing through big l... Read More >>

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The Importance of Not Being Ernest:  My life with the uninvited Hemingway
Books and Books Press, May 31, 2022

Ernest Hemingway Biography Like No Other

“For all that’s already been written about Hemingway,The Importance of Not Being Ernest illuminates his life and works in ways not seen before.”  — Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award winner and author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through

“The ghost of Hemingway has haunted and inspired at least three generations of  writers. Mark Kurlansky is no exception, and his detailed, self-deprecating account of the presence of that ghost is as brilliantly revealing of Hemingway as it is of Kurlansky himself. He knows his Hemingwa... Read More >>

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The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing
Bloomsbury

Fly fishing, historian Mark Kurlansky has found, is a battle of wits, fly fisher vs. fish--and the fly fisher does not always (or often) win. The targets--salmon, trout, and char; and for some, bass, tarpon, tuna, bonefish, and even marlin--are highly intelligent, wily, strong, and athletic animals. The allure, Kurlansky learns, is that fly fishing makes catching a fish as difficult as possible. There is an art, too, in the crafting of flies. Beautiful and intricate, some are made with more than two dozen pieces of feather and fur from a wide range of animals. The cast as well is a matter of grace and rhythm, wit... Read More >>

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Salmon:  A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate
Patagonia, March 3rd 2020

One of nature's most remarkable and inspiring animals with a long history of both commercial and sports fishing all over the Northern Atlantic and Pacific, Threatened by everything from deforestation, to climate change, to dams  if the salmon can survive than there is hope for the planet.

"Henry David Thoreau wrote, 'Who hears the fishes when they cry?' Maybe we need to go down to the river bank and try to listen."In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author of Salt and Cod, The Big Oyster, 1968, and Milk, among m... Read More >>

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Bugs In Danger:  Our Vanishing Bees, Butterflies, and Beetles
Bloomsbury Children's Books

By now you've probably heard that bees are disappearing--but they aren't the only species at risk. Populations of fireflies, butterflies, and ladybugs have all been declining in recent years, too. This middle grade nonfiction explains the growth, spread, and recent declines of each of these four types of insects. Exploring human causes, like the Baltimore electric company that collected fireflies to attempt to harness their phosphorescent lighting source, to natural occurrences, like the mysterious colony collapse disorder that plagues bee populations, master nonfiction storyteller Mark Kurlansky shows just how much bugs matter to our world. Read More >>

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Hardback, Bloomsbury USA, May 8th 2018 		MILK!:  A Ten Thousand Year Food Fracus
Hardback, Bloomsbury USA, May 8th 2018
Kindle Version, May 8th 2018

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

According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk became our galaxy, the Milky Way. But while mother's milk may be the essence of nourishment, it is the milk of other mammals that humans have cultivated ever since the domestication of animals more than 10,000 years ago, originally as a source of cheese, yogurt, kefir, and all manner of edible innovations that... Read More >>

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Havana:  A subtropical delirum
Hardback, Bloomsbury USA, March 7th 2017
Kindle Version, March 7th 2017

This is my thirtieth book . Om a starred review Booklist called it a “ little gem of a book." I have been regularly visiting this 500 year-old city for the fast thirty years off constant shifts and dramatic changes.  This book looks at the history of this city, its literature, music, sense of humor, food and personality..An homage to a great and tattered city.

A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky.

Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky present... Read More >>

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Paper:  Paging Through History
Hardback, W. W. Norton & Company, May 17th 2016
Kindle Version, May 16th 2016

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.

Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art; it has formed the foundation of civilizations, promoting revolutions and restoring stability. One has only to look at history’s greatest press run, which produced 6.5 billion copies of Máo zhuxí yulu, Quotations from Chair... Read More >>

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City Beasts:  Fourteen Short Stories of Uninvited Wildlife
Riverhead, February 3, 2015

All-new stories about the urban worlds where animals and humans fight, love, and find common ground, from the nationally bestselling author of Cod and Salt.

In these stories, Mark Kurlansky journeys to his familiar haunts like New York’s Central Park or Miami’s Little Havana but with an original, earthy, and adventurous perspective. From baseball players in the Dominican Republic to Basque separatists in Spain to a restaurant owner in Cuba, from urban coyotes to a murder of crows, Kurlansky travels the worlds of animals and their human counterparts, revealing moving and hilarious truths about our connected ex... Read More >>

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Frozen in Time:  Clarence Birdseye's Outrageous Idea About Frozen Food
Delacorte Books for Young Readers; Simultaneously available in a hardcover and trade paperback edition. Each edition includes an 8-page black-and-white photo insert.

The story of an odd man of imagination who  changed the world of food. Today Clarence Birdseye seems on the one hand very old fashioned but on the other curiously modern.

This biography—perfect for middle-grade readers—tells the life story of Clarence Birdseye, the man who revolutionized the frozen food industry, and is adapted from Mark Kurlansky’s adult work Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man.

Adventurer and inventor Clarence Birdseye had a fascination with food preservation that led him to develop and patent the Birdseye freezing process and start the company that still bears his name today. Hi... Read More >>

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International Night:  A Father and Daughter cook their way around the world.  Including more than 250 recipes.

Once a week in the Kurlansky home, Mark spins a globe and wherever his daughter's finger lands becomes the theme of that Friday night's dinner. Their tradition of International Night has afforded Mark an opportunity to share with his daughter, Talia--and now the readers of International Night--the recipes, stories, and insights he's collected over more than thirty years of traveling the world writing about food, culture, and history, and his charming pen-and-ink drawings, which appear throughout the book.

International Night is brimming with recipes for fifty-two special meals--appetizers, a main course, side ... Read More >>

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