by Mark Kurlansky
I'm more a fan of natural history than straight up human history, but Kurlansky's Basque history forms a reasonable triptych with his Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World and Salt: A World History--Cod because of the relationship of the Basque to the cod trade and Salt because of its ...
i really enjoyed this book and it was very informative!
Rating: 3.6* of fiveHistory is the beautiful, brightly lit foam on top of the annihilating tsunami of the unrecorded past. History books are the spectrographic analysis of the light glinting off that foam. Any attempt at making a book more than that is doomed to failure and tedium.This is not a tedi...
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