Pros: Fascinating, insightful, and engaging nuts-and-bolts history Cons: Too brief
Grand history is often about the very things people most like to read about: sex, power, money, warfare, and food. Nuts-and-bolts history, though, the story of the nail that was lost (and from that loss, the consequent loss of horseshoe, horse, rider,...
Pros: detailed history of salt - its contributions, detriments, and power in history Cons: dry on occasion.
Including recipes at the beginning of each chapter of things known to include salt (breads, fish...), Mark Kurlansky's book about salt is at once a geography lesson, a history lesson, and a look at how salt has affected the globe.
Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World, here turns his attention to a common household item with a long and...More at HotBookSale
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