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Salt: a world history

By Mark , Kurlansky

Book information

Publisher
Random House;Vintage Canada
Year
2011
ISBN
9781448113200, 9780099281993, 9780307369796, 030736979X, 1448113202
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2453329 bytes)
Edition
CA Ed
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of mankind. Wars have been fought over salt and, while salt taxes secured empires across Europe and Asia, they have also inspired revolution - Gandhi's salt march in 1930 began the overthrow of British rule in India. From the rural Sichuan province where the last home-made soya sauce is made to the Cheshire brine springs that supplied salt around the globe, Mark Kurlansky has produced a kaleidoscope of world history, a multilayered masterpiece that blends political, commercial, scientific, religious and culinary records into a rich and memorable tale

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