![]() ![]() However about 8000 American Revolutionaries died in battle, with 25,000 dead from all causes over the course of that war. The book states that the 3477 deaths at the Battle of Shiloh during the Civil War was almost equal to the number who died in all eight years of the Revolutionary War (pp. 201).The book states that Robert Fulton invented the submarine (p. 98), but this statement distorts the history of submarines various people had envisioned submarines in earlier eras, and a few had been built (such as the Turtle). Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of many books, including The Food of a Younger Land Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World Salt: A World History 1968: The Year That Rocked the World The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell and Paper: Paging Through History.He lives in New York City. ![]() George Washington never had children, but the book states Philip, the son of Washington, was put in charge of redistributing Loyalist-held properties in New York City after the Revolutionary War (pp. 92).The book states that "an Oyster has a brain", but they do not.It follows the history of New York City and the renowned oyster beds in the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary. Travel the world with Mark Kurlansky and Ernest Hemingway in this personal memoir, where Kurlansky details his ten years in Paris and his time as a journalist in Spainboth cities important to Hemingway’s adventurous life and prolific writing. Mark Kurlansky is a New York Times bestselling and James A. The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell is a book by Mark Kurlansky. Mark Kurlansky was born on December 7, 1948, in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. ![]()
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