Salt: A World History - Brossura

Kurlansky, Mark

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ISBN 10: 0142001619 ISBN 13: 9780142001615

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 2003

Riassunto

A history of salt notes its role as currency, in the establishment of trade routes and cities, and as an agenda of war, noting key figures who played major parts in its manufacture and distribution. Reprint.

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Recensione:

"Kurlansky finds the world in a grain of salt...fascination and surprise regularly erupt from the detail." —The New York Times Book Review

 

This is terrific food writing; like fleur de sel, something scarce and to be savored." —San Francisco Chronicle

"Kurlansky continues to prove himself remarkably adept at taking a most unlikely candidate and telling its tale with epic grandeur. " —Los Angeles Times Book Review

"If you are drawn to history and curious about the origins of foods, allow Mark Kurlansky to take you on an incredible journey through the centuries by way of salt." —The Baltimore Sun

"Kurlansky does a masterful job of expanding the reader's horizons....This book of minutely researched data and history can literally make the mouth water." —The Boston Globe

L'autore:

Mark Kurlansky is the author of many books including Cod, The Basque History of the World, 1968, and The Big Oyster. His newest book is Birdseye.

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• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0142001619
• ISBN 13: 9780142001615
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 496