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Mark Kurlansky
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An edition of Salt: A World History (2002)

Salt

a world history

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.94 ·
  • 16 Ratings
  • 96 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 21 Have read

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.

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Publisher
Vintage Canada
Language
English
Pages
484

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Subjects
Salt industry and trade, New York Times bestseller, nyt:e-book_nonfiction=2011-11-26, History, Salt, Nonfiction, Zout

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Salt: A World History
January 28, 2003, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Salt: A World History
July 2002, Thorndike Press
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2002, Vintage Canada
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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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Toronto, Ont

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
553.6/3/09
Library of Congress
TN900 .K865 2002c,

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 484 p. :
Number of pages
484

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22161020M
ISBN 10
0676975356
OCLC/WorldCat
49977698
Library Thing
3782
Goodreads
1037165

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Work Description

Mark Kurlansky's books Cod & Salt are the musts for every student on food studies. Together they supply the missing link of knowledge. One or two semesters courses are recommended for beginners in cod and salt studies.

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