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The Big Oyster : history on the half shell
- Title
- The Big Oyster : history on the half shell / Mark Kurlansky.
- Author
- Kurlansky, Mark.
- Publication
- New York : Ballantine Books, ©2006.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | No restrictions | *R-USLHG TX754.O98 K87 2006 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Reference Room 121 |
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Details
- Description
- xx, 307 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
- Summary
- The author takes an insightful look at the influence of the oyster on four centuries of New York history, culture, economics, and culinary trends.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-294) and index.
- Contents
- The beds of Eden -- A molluscular life -- The bivalvent Dung Hill -- The fecundity of Bivalvency -- A nice bed to visit -- Becoming the worlds's oyster -- Eggocentric New Yorkers -- The shells of sodom -- The crassostreasness of New Yorkers -- Making your own bed -- Ostreamaniacal behavior -- Ostracized in the golden age -- Enduring shellfishness.
- Call Number
- TX754.O98
- ISBN
- 0345476387
- 9780345476388
- LCCN
- 2005049853
- 9780345476388
- OCLC
- 60550567
- 84141514
- Author
- Kurlansky, Mark.
- Title
- The Big Oyster : history on the half shell / Mark Kurlansky.
- Imprint
- New York : Ballantine Books, ©2006.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-294) and index.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780345476388 (hardcover) 52395)
- Research Call Number
- *R-USLHG TX754.O98 K87 2006JSD 12-139