Finished reading, "Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky yesterday. Not great, but not bad. While I found it a little tedious at times, gives a lot of depth and information on something pretty vital that we otherwise dont think about a lot.
Don's review of Salt
3/5: An interesting read that is really a biography of salt and its uses throughout human history. The book demonstrates salt's importance to human existence, and thus how it becomes so vitally important in varied cultures throughout history and across the globe, from the Chinese and Romans to the Mayans and Celts. Kurlansky shows how salt, because of its important, also becomes subject to politics - including the first state run monopoly in ancient China. There is a lot of detail in the book, enough for a reader to get lost. Also, because the book is, like I stated at the beginning, a biograph...
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