The prolific Mark Kurlansky has published 33 books that, in aggregate, cover just about everything. He has written books about milk, Havana, Clarence Birdseye, nonviolence, the pop song “Dancing in the Street,” the year 1968 and . . . you get the idea.
If Mr. Kurlansky has any sort of bias, it might be for fish, and indeed he is best known for “Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World.” This 1997 bestseller gracefully demonstrated how a book about a single fish could also be a book about, well, everything: exploration, sociology, commerce, politics, technology, cuisine and so on. In its soul, however, it’s a work of history.
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