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Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky's books Cod & Salt are the musts for every student on food studies. Together they supply the missing …
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Mark Kurlansky's books Cod & Salt are the musts for every student on food studies. Together they supply the missing …

Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been founded on it, economies …

Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set …

"Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every …

Ten Days That Shook the World (1919) is a book by the American journalist and socialist John Reed. Here, Reed …

February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation …

Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.


Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year and longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.
Sebastian Barry's …

Bernard Cornwell: Flame Bearer (2016, HarperCollins Publishers Limited)
With Britain in an uneasy state of peace, Uhtred of Bebbanburg at last has the chance to take back the …