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Title: Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky ISBN: 0-14-200161-9 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.54 (28 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Historical Presentation
Comment: I have come to believe that you DO learn something with every new book. In this case, it is the extreme importance of salt as an empire-creating, nation-building, source of survival and yes, luxury. It is hard to imagine a world without salt. Indeed, the reason salt is rarely discussed in history books today is due to its ubiquity. If gold were as common as salt, it too would become a subject of relative unimportance.
Essentially, this is a presentation of salt from several angles, mostly historical. There is some science and health for the interested layman, some helpful illustrations and charts. Also the several old recipes are interesting in what they say and what they omit. It is the history that I found fascinating, the rise and fall of companies and empires based on this single commodity. A good, easy read.
Rating: 3
Summary: No mention of the importance of salt as Christian metaphor
Comment: I read this book with the intention of gaining an understanding of why salt was used as a metaphor by Christ.
This book does a good job of highlighting how important salt was in days gone by, but as I wrote the author, I found it patently absurd how carefully he avoided any investigation of why salt is mentioned so prominently in the Bible. The impression I came away with is that the author is an elite intellectual and hostile to Christianity. To my mind, writing about the history of salt without mentioning the Bible is like writing about the history of apple pie without mentioning America.
Rating: 1
Summary: there is nothing sweet about this book
Comment: i am a salt historian and it left a salty taste in my mouth.
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Title: Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky ISBN: 0140275010 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Potato : How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World by Larry Zuckerman ISBN: 0865475784 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 25 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky ISBN: 0140298517 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Coal: A Human History by Barbara Freese ISBN: 0738204005 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization by Iain Gately ISBN: 0802117058 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 09 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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