{
  "type": "book",
  "site": {
    "name": "The Book Quiver",
    "language": "en-US",
    "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "title": "Salt",
  "subtitle": null,
  "slug": "salt",
  "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-kurlansky/salt",
  "json": "https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-kurlansky/salt.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-kurlansky/salt.md",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Mark Kurlansky",
      "slug": "mark-kurlansky",
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-kurlansky"
    }
  ],
  "language": "en_GB",
  "original_title": null,
  "original_language": null,
  "first_published": "2003-03-06",
  "genres": [
    {
      "code": "JB",
      "heading": "Society and culture: general"
    },
    {
      "code": "NHB",
      "heading": "General and world history"
    },
    {
      "code": "WTL",
      "heading": "Travel writing"
    }
  ],
  "series": [],
  "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/vintage-digital/mark-kurlansky/salt_978-14-4811-320-0-01c7919b.webp?v=2026-10-05%2003%3A49%3A57",
  "description": "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.",
  "editions": [
    {
      "title": "Salt",
      "subtitle": null,
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-kurlansky/salt/9781448113200",
      "publisher": "vintage_digital",
      "translators": [],
      "medium": "ebook",
      "duration_seconds": null,
      "narrators": [],
      "isbn": "978-14-4811-320-0",
      "pages": null,
      "published": "2011-09-30",
      "language": "en_GB",
      "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/vintage-digital/mark-kurlansky/salt_978-14-4811-320-0-01c7919b.webp?v=2026-10-05%2003%3A49%3A57"
    },
    {
      "title": "Salt",
      "subtitle": null,
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-kurlansky/salt/9780099281993",
      "publisher": "Vintage",
      "translators": [],
      "medium": "paper",
      "duration_seconds": null,
      "narrators": [],
      "isbn": "978-00-9928-199-3",
      "pages": 496,
      "published": "2003-03-06",
      "language": "en_GB",
      "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/vintage/mark-kurlansky/salt_978-00-9928-199-3.jpg?v=2026-04-22%2004%3A52%3A27"
    },
    {
      "title": "Salt",
      "subtitle": null,
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-kurlansky/salt/9780142001615",
      "publisher": "penguin_books",
      "translators": [],
      "medium": "paper",
      "duration_seconds": null,
      "narrators": [],
      "isbn": "978-01-4200-161-5",
      "pages": 496,
      "published": "2003-01-28",
      "language": "en_US",
      "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/penguin-books/mark-kurlansky/salt_978-01-4200-161-5.jpg?v=2026-06-21%2019%3A40%3A08"
    }
  ],
  "other_languages": [],
  "characters": [],
  "chapters": []
}