# Salt

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- Book: [Salt](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-kurlansky/salt) ([Salt.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-kurlansky/salt.md))
- Authors: [Mark Kurlansky](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-kurlansky)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9928-199-3
- Pages: 496
- Published: 2003-03-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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.