Salt

by	Mark Kurlansky

SKU: 9780099281993 Categories: Cultural Studies, History, Social History Tags: accounting, Adrian Goldsworthy, Andrew Marr, everybody lies, farewell to the horse, guns germs and steel, how to own the world, how to read a book, How to Read Water, ian mortimer, jared diamond, levison wood, Max Hastings, niall ferguson, On Tyranny, one hundred years of solitude, pale rider the spanish flu of 1918, Paul Theroux, prisoners of geography, sapiens a brief history of humankind, the luxury stratagy, the silk road, the silk roads: a new history of the world, things to do, Tim Harford, tom chesshyre, why nations fail, Yuval Noah Harari

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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 produced to the Cheshire brine springs that supplied salt around the globe, Mark Kurlansky has produced a kaleidoscope of world history, a multi-layered masterpiece that blends political, commercial, scientific, religious and culinary records into a rich and memorable tale.

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Weight	0.343 kg
Dimensions	3 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
by	Mark Kurlansky
Format	Paperback
Language	English
Pages	496
Publisher	Random House
Year Published	2003-3-6
Imprint	Vintage
Publication City/Country	London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10	0099281996
About The Author	Mark Kurlansky is the author of 23 books of fiction, nonfiction, children's writing. His best-selling Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World won the 1999 James Beard Award for Food Writing and the 1999 Glenfiddich Award. His other works include: Salt, The Basque History of the World and the short story collection The White Man in the Tree. He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.
	Refreshing and invigorating, full of fascinating fact
Other text	This is an extraordinary little book, unputdownable, written in the most lyrical, flowing style which paints vivid pictures and, at the same time, punches into place hard facts that stop you dead in your tracks. A compulsive read

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