Salt
Subtitle: A World History
Edition: Largeprint edition
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: July 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 572
ISBN-13: 9780786243891
Subjects: Salt industry and trade; Natural Resources; History - General History; World - General; History: World; Specimens; Salt; General; History; Earth Sciences - Geology; Large type books
First sentence: ONCE I STOOD on the bank of a rice paddy in rural Sichuan Province, and a lean and aging Chinese peasant, wearing a faded forty-year-old blue jacket issued by the Mao government in the early years of the Revolution, stood knee deep in water and apropos of absolutely nothing shouted defiantly at me, "We Chinese invented many things!"