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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