SaltMark KurlanskyLabel: VintageDescription: Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning and its story is a glittering often surprising part of the history of mankind. Wars have been fought over salt and while salt taxes secured empires across Europe and Asia they have also inspired revolution - Gandhi's salt march in 1930 began the overthrow of British rule in India. From the rural Sichuan province where the last home-made soya sauce is produced to the Cheshire brine springs that supplied salt around the globe Mark Kurlansky has produced a kaleidoscope of world history a multi-layered masterpiece that blends political commercial scientific religious and culinary records into a rich and memorable tale.
