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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Kurlansky |
ISBN: | 0802713734 9780802713735 1417675160 9781417675166 0142001619 9780142001615 |
OCLC Number: | 48573453 |
Description: | xii, 484 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: The Rock -- Pt. 1. Discourse on Salt, Cadavers, and Pungent Sauces -- Ch. 1. Mandate of Salt -- Ch. 2. Fish, Fowl, and Pharaohs -- Ch. 3. Saltmen Hard as Codfish -- Ch. 4. Salt's Salad Days -- Ch. 5. Salting it Alway in the Adriatic -- Ch. 6. Two Ports and the Prosciutto in Between -- Pt. 2. Glow of Herring and the Scent of Conquest -- Ch. 7. Friday's Salt -- Ch. 8. Nordic Dream -- Ch. 9. Well-Salted Hexagon -- Ch. 10. Hapsburg Pickle -- Ch. 11. Leaving of Liverpool -- Ch. 12. American Salt Wars -- Ch. 13. Salt and Independence -- Ch. 14. Liberte, Egalite, Tax Breaks -- Ch. 15. Preserving Independence -- Ch. 16. War Between the Salts -- Ch. 17. Red Salt -- Pt. 3. Sodium's Perfect Marriage -- Ch. 18. Odium of Sodium -- Ch. 19. Mythology of Geology -- Ch. 20. Soil Never Sets On ... -- Ch. 21. Salt and the Great Soul -- Ch. 22. Not Looking Back -- Ch. 23. Last Salt Days of Zigong -- Ch. 24. Ma, La, and Mao -- Ch. 25. More Salt than Fish -- Ch. 26. Big Salt, Little Salt. |
Responsibility: | Mark Kurlansky. |
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Abstract:
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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Mine has a different cover
It looks different.Maybe the stories are the same though,, I don't knows.
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