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Salt: A World History (Paperback)

by Mark Kurlansky (Author) "Once I STOOD on the bank of a rice paddy in rural Sichuan Province, and a lean and aging Chinese peasant, wearing a faded forty-year-old..." (more)
Key Phrases: salt policy, salt rakers, peat salt, Dead Sea, New York, United States (more...)
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Kurlansky continues to prove himself remarkably adept at taking a most unlikely candidate and telling its tale with epic grandeur.

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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)

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Product Details
  • Paperback: 498 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (January 28, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0142001619
  • ISBN-13: 978-0142001615
  • Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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