The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
It is almost forgotten that for all of its history New York was famous for its urban oyster beds until they were destroyed by pollution in the early twentieth century. This is the history of the city told through its most famous natural resource. The New York Times wrote “Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining.” The Los Angles Times wrote, “Suffused with [Kurlansky’s] pleasure in exploring the city across ground that hasn’t already been covered with other writers’ footprints.” A national bestseller, the Associated Press called it “a towering accomplishment.”
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Hardcover
Ballantine Books, 2006
ISBN: 978-0345476395
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
Paperback
Random House Trade, 2007
ISBN: 9780345476395