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  <title><![CDATA[Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, And Discovery of the New World]]></title>
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  <default_description>What gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set  out across the Atlantic Ocean? &lt;BR&gt; &lt;I&gt;Fish on Friday&lt;/I&gt; tells the story of the discovery of America as a  product of the long sweep of history: the spread of Christianity and the  radical cultural changes it brought to Europe, the interaction of economic  necessity with a changing climate, and generations of unknown fishermen  who explored the North Atlantic in the centuries before Columbus. A  fascinating and multifaceted book, &lt;I&gt;Fish on Friday&lt;/I&gt; will intrigue  everyone who wonders how the vast forces of climate, culture, and  technology conspire to create the history we know.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2006</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first part of this book was good, but half way through Brian Fagan lost sight of where he was going and the last 2-3 chapters were an effort to finish.  It was as if he lost interest in the subject by the time he hit 1100AD and from that point the author was unable to stay on a subject or narrat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53726734">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was expecting something more general - my bad for not paying attention.  :)]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Even better than Cod, Mark Kurlansky's book...this fascinating history of the atlantic fishery and trade systems driven by religion, greed and the tenacity of individuals, not the story of a few famous people (Columbus and Cabot) but of many forgotten, the geography of the atlantic and the pursuit a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73165300">more...</a>]]></body>
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