Salt: A World History

The author of "Cod" and "The Basque History of the World" takes an extraordinary look at an ordinary substance—salt, the only rock humans eat—and how it has shaped civilization from the very beginning. Unabridged. 14 CDs.

Los Angeles Times - Rubin

In Salt: A World History, Kurlansky continues to prove himself remarkably adept at taking a most unlikely candidate and telling its tale with epic grandeur.

Blessed with extraordinary narrative skills, journalist and bestselling author Mark Kurlansky has turned a variety of eclectic, offbeat topics into engaging nonfiction blockbusters like Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (1997), Salt: A World History (2002), and The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell (2006).