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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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Main Author: Kurlansky, Mark (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Walker and Co., Ã2002.
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Salt industry and trade > History.
Salt.
Salt > History.
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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.
Physical Description:xii, 484 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-465) and index.
ISBN:0802713734
9780802713735
1417675160
9781417675166
0142001619
9780142001615
0224060848
9780224060844
Author Notes:Mark Kurlansky is the author of The Basque History of the World, the New York Times bestseller Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (among the New York Public Library's Best Books of the Year in 1998), as well as A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry; A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny, and several acclaimed works of short fiction and journalism about the Caribbean. He spent seven years as the Caribbean correspondent for the Chicago Tribune.

He lives in New York City.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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