Taras Grescoe

Autor de The Devil's Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit

9 Obras 919 Miembros 52 Reseñas 1 Preferidas

Sobre El Autor

Taras Grescoe is the author of Sacre Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec, which won the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction and was a national bestseller in Canada

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Obras de Taras Grescoe

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The Devil's Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit (2005) 262 copias

Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood (2008) 218 copias

Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (2012) 170 copias

Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec (2000) 90 copias

Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World (2016) 65 copias

The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists (2003) 63 copias

The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past (“A fascinating book that leaves you… (2023) 30 copias

Dead Seas (2009) 14 copias

Possess the Air: Love, Heroism, and the Battle for the Soul of Mussolini's Rome (2020) 7 copias

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Alimentación (6) alimentos y bebidas (9) canadiense (10) Canadá (10) China (13) Ciencia (9) ciudades (13) coches (8) Comida (75) Cultura (8) Cultura popular (7) Drogas (9) Ecología (6) ensayos (8) Estudios culturales (6) food history (7) food writing (7) Fruto de mar (18) Historia (21) Lecturas avanzadas (11) Ley seca (6) Leído/a (8) Libro de viaje (10) medio ambiente (23) No ficción (97) no leído (8) Pesca (8) Pisces (17) Planeamiento urbanístico (15) Por leer (62) Quebec (14) Shanghái (12) Sostenibilidad (8) subway (9) Transit (8) transportación (19) Transporte público (15) Turismo (8) Viaje (57) Ética (8)

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Fecha de nacimiento: 1966
Género: male
Nacionalidad: Canada (birth)
Lugar de nacimiento: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lugares de residencia: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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The Devil's Picnic: When you Can't have it, You… por Taras Grescoe

Terrific biography, very detailed. It gave more insight to the great man and proved that he was human.

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k.a.mulenga_writer | 9 reseñas más. | Mar 27, 2023 |

Straphanger : surviving the end of the automobile age por Taras Grescoe

Good overview of urbanism through the lens of transit. I liked that he gives sone commentary on the class/race/political issues surrounding development and transit.

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yukonho | 21 reseñas más. | Aug 20, 2020 |

Dead Seas: How the fish on our plates is killing… por Taras Grescoe

A grim read about the future of the oceans

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PDCRead | Apr 6, 2020 |

Shanghai grand : forbidden love and international… por Taras Grescoe

After some initial confusion [I thought this was a romantic novel but it’s a true romance] Shanghai Grand developed into one of the most intoxicating books to come my way for years.

Zau Sinmay was a handsome, cosmopolitan Chinese poet; Mickey Hahn was a beautiful and slightly outrageous American journalist: they met in Sir Victor Sassoon’s fabulous Cathay Hotel in 1936 and fell scandalously in love.

The personalities range from gangsters to Russian aristocrats, authors to spies, millionaire colonials to Jewish refugees, but most fascinating of all, is the seductive city of Shanghai.… (más)

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adpaton | 2 reseñas más. | Aug 11, 2017 |

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