Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky

484 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink history science informative slow-paced
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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 hist...

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