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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell

By Mark Kurlansky
Narrated by: John H. Mayer
Unabridged — 9 hours, 57 minutes
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By Mark Kurlansky
Narrated by: John H. Mayer
Unabridged — 9 hours, 57 minutes
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Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants-the oyster, whose influence on the great metropolis remains unparalleled.

For centuries New York was famous for its oysters, which until the early 1900s played such a dominant a role in the city's economy, gastronomy, and ecology that the abundant bivalves were Go...