Taras Grescoe

Autore di The Devil's Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit

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Sull'Autore

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

Comprende il nome: Taras Grescoe

Fonte dell'immagine: Courtesy of Serpent's Tail Press

Opere di Taras Grescoe

Popolari Recenti

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dead Seas (2009) 14 copie

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

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Etichette

Alimentazione (6) Ambiente (23) ARC (11) Canada (10) canadese (10) Cibi e bevande (9) cibo (75) Cina (13) città (13) Cultura (8) Cultura di massa (7) Cultural Studies (6) da leggere (62) droghe (9) Ecologia (6) Etica (8) food writing (7) letto (8) macchine (8) metropolitana (9) non letto (8) Pesca (8) Pesce (17) Proibizionismo (6) Québec (14) Reportage di viaggio (10) saggi (8) Saggistica (97) Scienza (9) seafood (18) Shanghai (12) Sostenibilità (8) Storia (21) Storia dell'alimentazione (7) transit (8) trasporti (19) Trasporto pubblico (15) Turismo (8) Urbanistica (15) Viaggio (57)

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita: 1966
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: Canada (birth)
Luogo di nascita: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Luogo di residenza: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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The Devil's Picnic: When you Can't have it, You… di 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 altre recensioni | Mar 27, 2023 |

Straphanger : surviving the end of the automobile age di 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 altre recensioni | Aug 20, 2020 |

Dead Seas: How the fish on our plates is killing… di 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… di 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.… (altro)

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adpaton | 2 altre recensioni | Aug 11, 2017 |

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