Salt
Subtitle: A World History
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: January 28, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9780142001615
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!"