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Item Details
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SALT
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| By: |
Mark Kurlansky |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£10.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1448113202 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781448113200 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
30 September, 2011 |
| Pages: |
496 |
| Description: |
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. In this title, the author relates that salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning. |
| Synopsis: |
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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UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage Digital |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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