The Big Oyster (37 page)

2007 Random House Trade Paperback Edition

Copyright © 2006 by Mark Kurlansky

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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2006.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Kurlansky, Mark.

The big oyster : History on the half shell / Mark Kurlansky.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Cookery (Oysters) 2. Oysters—New York (State)—New York. I. Title.

TX754.O98K87 2006
641.6'94—dc22 2005049853

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Frontispiece, title page, and part title pages art: Harper's Weekly, 1882.

eISBN: 978-1-58836-591-0

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