Taras Grescoe

Auteur de Le Pique Nique du Diable

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A propos de l'auteur

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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Crédit image: Courtesy of Serpent's Tail Press

Œuvres de Taras Grescoe

Populaires Récent

Le Pique Nique du Diable (2005) 261 exemplaires

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

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

Sacre Blues un Portrait Iconoclaste du Quebec (2000) 90 exemplaires

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

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

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

Dead Seas (2009) 14 exemplaires

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

Explorateur d'oeuvres

Étiqueté

A lire (62) Alimentation (6) Canada (10) canadien (10) Chine (13) Culture (8) Culture populaire (7) Drogues (9) Durabilité (8) Environnement (23) Epreuve "Advanced Reader Copy" (11) essais (8) Fruit de mer (18) Histoire (21) Histoire de la nourriture (7) littérature gastronomique (7) Lu (8) Non lu (8) non-fiction (97) Nourriture (75) Nourriture et boisson (9) Planification urbaine (15) Poisson (17) Prohibition (6) Pêche (8) Québec (14) Récit de voyage (10) Science (9) Shanghai (12) Subway (9) Tourisme (8) Transit (8) Transport (19) Transport en commun (15) Villes (13) voitures (8) Voyage (57) Écologie (6) Éthique (8) Études culturelles (6)

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Partage des connaissances

Date de naissance: 1966
Sexe: male
Nationalité: Canada (birth)
Lieu de naissance: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lieux de résidence: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Critiques

The Devil's Picnic: When you Can't have it, You… par 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 autres critiques | Mar 27, 2023 |

Straphanger : surviving the end of the automobile age par 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 autres critiques | Aug 20, 2020 |

Dead Seas: How the fish on our plates is killing… par 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… par 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.… (plus d'informations)

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adpaton | 2 autres critiques | Aug 11, 2017 |

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