Salt
Subtitle: A World History
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: January 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780224060844
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!"