Salt
Subtitle: A World History
Publisher: Walker & Company
Published: January 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780802713735
Subjects: World - General; Rocks & Minerals; History - General History; History: World; History / General; History; Salt; Salt industry and trade
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!"