Salt, a world history, Mark Kurlansky
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Salt, a world history, Mark Kurlansky
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-465) and index
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Salt
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bibliography
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48573453
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Mark Kurlansky
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a world history
Summary
This book takes a look at an ordinary substance--salt, the only rock humans eat--and how it has shaped civilization from the very beginning
Table Of Contents
Discourse on salt, cadavers, and pungent sources: Mandate of salt -- Fish, fowl, and pharoahs -- Saltmen hard as codfish -- Salt's salad days -- Salting it away in the Adriatic -- Two ports and the prosciutto in between -- Glow of herring and the scent of conquest: Friday's salt -- Nordic dream -- Well-salted hexagon -- Hapsburg pickle -- Leaving of Liverpool -- American salt wars -- Salt and independence -- Liberte, egalite, tax breaks -- Preserving independence -- War between the salts -- Red salt -- Sodium's perfect marriage: Odium of sodium -- Mythology of geology -- Soil never sets on -- Salt and the great soul -- Not looking back -- Last salt days of Zigong -- Ma, La, and Mao -- More salt than fish -- Big salt, little salt
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