alt Hacker NewsWould highly recommend the book "Salt" by Mark Kurlansky. I never realized how influential salt was to the course of human history.
Would highly recommend the book "Salt" by Mark Kurlansky. I never realized how influential salt was to the course of human history.
Everything I've read by Kurlansky has been awesome. Big fan of the thematic history genre. Simply great stuff. Gives adequate scope for authors to connect various dots without going all dry or embellishment.