Salt: A World History
by Mark Kurlansky
like a grain of sand(2/23/2007)
You can learn a great deal about human history in this book. Unfortunately, being assigned reading often makes nonfiction books disliked. Read this book if you like a well written story about a substance needed for us to live, that has been taxed, fought over and now tossed …more on streets. You will never look at a saltshaker the same again.(less)
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