Mark Kurlansky: Salt: A World History [2003] paperback Condition:Very Good Resourceful

Resourceful

battered suitcase

And the last appointed heir

Neil Philip has provided a full introduction and source notes on each story that illustrate each tale's journey from mouth to page

She reads Rebecca in the house her new boyfriend shared with his ex-wife and rewinds Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story to learn how not to lose yourself in a relationship

Mark Kurlansky: Salt: A World History [2003] paperback Condition:Very Good ResourcefulHomer 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