I enjoyed Salt: A World History - very interesting. Haven't read the others yet. I am suspicious of anything/people that are supposed to be the sole cause of any history, but I found out a lot I'd known nothing about.

Eve

On 04-Feb-2015 6:53 PM, Ralph Hancock wrote:

Beatrice Hopkinson  wrote:

Lampreys were abundant where we lived in England which was at Droitwich, in Worcestershire - an ancient salt town.

Its where I first got interested in salt!

 Have you read Mark Kurlansky's _Salt: A World History_? He believes that salt, cod and the Basques were more or less the motors of the development of western civilisation, and has written a book on each of these. He writes so passionately that you believe his claims, for a while. And there is much curious information.

RH

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