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Mark Kurlansky: Salt: A World History [2003] paperback Condition:Very Good Neil Philip has provided aHomer 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