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Salt: A World History

Door Mark Kurlansky

Categorie
Algemeen Geschiedenis
Boeknummer
#421115-YE6
Titel
Salt: A World History
Auteur
Kurlansky, Mark
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Vintage Canada
Jaar van uitgave
2002
ISBN10
0676975356
ISBN13
9780676975352
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Cod comes the dramatic, human story of a simple substance, an element almost as vital as water, that has created fortunes, provoked revolutions, directed economies and enlivened our recipes. Salt is common, easy to obtain and inexpensive. It is the stuff of kitchens and cooking. Yet trade routes were established, alliances built and empires secured – all for something that filled the oceans, bubbled up from springs, formed crusts in lake beds, and thickly veined a large part of the Earth's rock fairly close to the surface. From pre-history until just a century ago – when the mysteries of salt were revealed by modern chemistry and geology – no one knew that salt was virtually everywhere. Accordingly, it was one of the most s... (Lees verder)ought-after commodities in human history. Even today, salt is a major industry. Canada, Kurlansky tells us, is the world's sixth largest salt producer, with salt works in Ontario playing a major role in satisfying the Americans' insatiable demand. As he did in his highly acclaimed Cod, Mark Kurlansky once again illuminates the big picture by focusing on one seemingly modest detail. In the process, the world is revealed as never before.
Pagina's
484
Conditie
Goed — Top cut foxed.
Prijs
€ 12,50

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