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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. Mark Kurlansky has produced a kaleidoscope of history, a multi-layered masterpiece that blends economic, scientific, political, religious, and culinary records into a rich and memorable tale.
©2003 Mark Kurlansky (P)2006 Phoenix Books, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
In this engaging, anecdotal history of food, world conquest, and desire, a chef-turned-journalist tells the story of three legendary cities, Venice, Lisbon, and Amsterdam, that transformed the globe in the quest for spice.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not that bad.
- De EmperorTab en 10-19-08
De: Michael Krondl
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1493
- Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
- De: Charles C. Mann
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 17 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,121
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,771
More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke. Driven by the economic goal of establishing trade with China, he accidentally set off an ecological convulsion as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Mindbending History.
- De Betsy Powel en 12-19-11
De: Charles C. Mann
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High on the Hog
- A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
- De: Jessica B. Harris
- Narrado por: Jessica Harris
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 208
Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris weaves an utterly engaging history of African American cuisine, taking the listener on a harrowing journey from Africa across the Atlantic to America, and tracking the trials that the people and the food have undergone along the way. From chitlins and ham hocks to fried chicken and vegan soul, Harris celebrates the delicious and restorative foods of the African American experience and details how each came to form an important part of African American culture, history, and identity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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more of a history lesson than a culinary book
- De Scott Johnson en 09-02-15
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An Edible History of Humanity
- De: Tom Standage
- Narrado por: George K. Wilson
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 570
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 467
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 467
Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict, and economic expansion. An Edible History of Humanity is a pithy, entertaining account of how a series of changes---caused, enabled, or influenced by food---has helped to shape and transform societies around the world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Flawed, but worthwhile
- De Ary Shalizi en 12-28-17
De: Tom Standage
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Chop Suey
- A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States
- De: Andrew Coe
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
In 1784, passengers on the ship Empress of China became the first Americans to land in China and the first to eat Chinese food. Today there are over 40,000 Chinese restaurants across the United States - by far the most plentiful among all our ethnic eateries. Now, in Chop Suey, Andrew Coe provides the authoritative history of the American infatuation with Chinese food, telling its fascinating story for the first time.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Wanted to like this
- De Irene en 02-13-21
De: Andrew Coe
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A Splendid Exchange
- How Trade Shaped the World
- De: William J. Bernstein
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 17 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 394
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 252
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 259
In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein tells the extraordinary story of global commerce from its prehistoric origins to the myriad controversies surrounding it today. He transports listeners from ancient sailing ships that brought the silk trade from China to Rome in the second century to the rise and fall of the Portuguese monopoly in spices in the 16th.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting and Germane to Today's World
- De Mark en 07-18-08
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Eight Flavors
- The Untold Story of American Cuisine
- De: Sarah Lohman
- Narrado por: Sarah Lohman
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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The United States boasts a culturally and ethnically diverse population which makes for a continually changing culinary landscape. But a young historical gastronomist named Sarah Lohman discovered that American food is united by eight flavors: black pepper, vanilla, curry powder, chili powder, soy sauce, garlic, MSG, and Sriracha. In Eight Flavors, Lohman sets out to explore how these influential ingredients made their way to the American table.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read... Terrible accents
- De S. Macklin en 12-14-18
De: Sarah Lohman
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Lesser Beasts
- A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig
- De: Mark Essig
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 712
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 645
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 640
As historian Mark Essig reveals in Lesser Beasts, swine have such a bad reputation for precisely the same reasons they are so valuable as a source of food: they are intelligent, self-sufficient, and omnivorous. What's more, he argues, we ignore our historic partnership with these astonishing animals at our peril.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Virtuous Carnivors?
- De David en 04-14-16
De: Mark Essig
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Collapse
- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- De: Jared Diamond
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 27 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,716
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,478
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,470
In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Jared Diamond Downs You in Explanation
- De Rob en 07-20-18
De: Jared Diamond
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Slime
- How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
- De: Ruth Kassinger
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
In Slime we'll meet the algae innovators working toward a sustainable future: from seaweed farmers in South Korea, to scientists using it to clean the dead zones in our waterways, to the entrepreneurs fighting to bring algae fuel and plastics to market. Ruth Kassinger takes listeners on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes, and into-the-kitchen tour. Whether you thought algae was just the gunk in your fish tank or you eat seaweed with your oatmeal, Slime will delight and amaze with its stories of the good, the bad, and the up-and-coming.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fairly entertaining and informative...but
- De Timothy en 08-27-19
De: Ruth Kassinger
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The Gulf
- The Making of an American Sea
- De: Jack E. Davis
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 20 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 435
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 374
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 375
When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America's sea - bound by geography, culture, and tradition to the national experience - and yet, there has never been a comprehensive history of the Gulf until now. And so, in this rich and original work that explores the Gulf through our human connection with the sea, environmental historian Jack E. Davis finally places this exceptional region into the American mythos in a sweeping history that extends from the Pleistocene age to the 21st century.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Decolonize gulf history
- De Jesse Carr en 05-02-18
De: Jack E. Davis
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The Domestic Revolution
- How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything
- De: Ruth Goodman
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
No single invention epitomizes the Victorian era more than the black cast-iron range. Aware that the 21st-century has reduced it to a quaint relic, Ruth Goodman was determined to prove that the hot coal stove provided so much more than morning tea: It might even have kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Wielding the wit and passion seen in How to Be a Victorian, Goodman traces the tectonic shift from wood to coal in the mid-16th century - from sooty trials and errors during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the totally smog-clouded reign of Queen Victoria.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Zombie Apocalypse
- De PeachPecan en 12-25-20
De: Ruth Goodman
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And a Bottle of Rum
- A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
- De: Wayne Curtis
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 330
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 288
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And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of America as seen through the bottom of a drinking glass. With a chapter for each of 10 cocktails, Wayne Curtis reveals that the homely spirit once distilled from the industrial waste of the exploding sugar trade has managed to infiltrate every stratum of New World society. Curtis takes us from the taverns of the American colonies, to the plundering pirate ships off the coast of Central America, to the watering holes of pre-Castro Cuba, and to the kitsch-laden tiki bars of 1950s America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A nice intersection of history and rum
- De Garshom L. Arkoff en 05-10-23
De: Wayne Curtis
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Super Sushi Ramen Express
- One Family's Journey Through the Belly of Japan
- De: Michael Booth
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
Japan is arguably the preeminent food nation on earth, a Mecca for the world's greatest chefs, with more Michelin stars than any other country. The Japanese go to extraordinary lengths and expense to eat food that is marked both by its exquisite preparation and exotic content. Their creativity, dedication, and courage in the face of dishes such as cod sperm and octopus ice cream is only now beginning to be fully appreciated in the sushi and ramen-saturated West.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting material that's well-narrated
- De John S. en 11-09-16
De: Michael Booth
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Consider the Fork
- A History of How We Cook and Eat
- De: Bee Wilson
- Narrado por: Alison Larkin
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,397
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,219
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,214
Since prehistory, humans have braved the business ends of knives, scrapers, and mashers, all in the name of creating something delicious - or at least edible. In Consider the Fork, award-winning food writer and historian Bee Wilson traces the ancient lineage of our modern culinary tools, revealing the startling history of objects we often take for granted. Charting the evolution of technologies from the knife and fork to the gas range and the sous-vide cooker, Wilson offers unprecedented insights.
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5 out of 5 stars
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For the foodie/science geek/history buff in you
- De Nothing really matters en 08-30-14
De: Bee Wilson
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The Book of Why
- The New Science of Cause and Effect
- De: Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 15 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 837
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 691
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 689
"Correlation does not imply causation". This mantra has been invoked by scientists for decades and has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and placed causality - the study of cause and effect - on a firm scientific basis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book! Not a great audiobook.
- De rrwright en 05-30-18
De: Judea Pearl, y otros
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Hello World
- Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
- De: Hannah Fry
- Narrado por: Hannah Fry
- Duración: 6 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 754
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 651
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 647
Hello World takes us on a tour through the good, the bad, and the downright ugly of the algorithms that surround us on a daily basis. Mathematician Hannah Fry reveals their inner workings, showing us how algorithms are written and implemented, and demonstrates the ways in which human bias can literally be written into the code. By weaving in relatable, real world stories with accessible explanations of the underlying mathematics that power algorithms, Hello World helps us to determine their power, expose their limitations, and examine whether they really are improvements.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing and meandering book
- De Sc en 02-10-20
De: Hannah Fry
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The Plague Year
- America in the Time of COVID
- De: Lawrence Wright
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 314
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 270
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 266
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19 - its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book about Covid-19 I’ve read so far
- De KarenT en 06-11-21
De: Lawrence Wright
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Parasite Rex
- Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
- De: Carl Zimmer
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 135
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 134
For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and the darkest shadows of science. In Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer takes listeners on a fantastic voyage into the secret universe of these extraordinary life forms that are not only among the most highly evolved on Earth, but make up the majority of life's diversity. Traveling from the steamy jungles of Costa Rica to the parasite-riddled war zone of southern Sudan, Zimmer introduces an array of amazing creatures that invade their hosts, prey on them from within, and control their behavior.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating, Repetitive and reading disaster
- De Spiral, en 04-02-20
De: Carl Zimmer
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Salt
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Total5 out of 5 stars
- Markus
- 04-27-04
Informative and Entertaining
If you enjoy books (and TV programs) like the "Connections" series by James Burke or are a Discovery Channel junkie, you'll enjoy this book. It is truly a cultural history of salt - possibly the most important chemical after water in human history. Highly recommended.
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia4 out of 5 stars
- Catherine
- 09-17-12
Well Salted
"Salt" is the kind of history I wanted from "Catching Fire"; an anecdotal recounting of the uses and abuses of salt across history and around the world: its use a money, political fodder, tax-base and the cause and excuse for riot and revolution. I had no idea how varied the types of salt mining and the many different kinds of salt there were and are.
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Total3 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución3 out of 5 stars
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Historia3 out of 5 stars
- anonymous
- 07-23-23
Less might be more
Although I enjoy non fiction books on history, this one was a bit flat. I think if only half the number of recipes were used and some of the details that really did not improve the story were eliminated it would be a better story. It became tedious to listen to after awhile. The readers voice was also not expressive or interesting.
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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- M. Naclerio
- 08-28-16
excellent and very entertaining
excellent and very entertaining. I love history and cooking. I never knew salt was so complex.
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Total3 out of 5 stars
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- Laurel Honey
- 09-16-16
History buff read
I enjoyed the incredible journey of salt through the ages. Think if I I had retained more from my history classes it would have been a better read.
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Stephen C. Toth
- 02-06-19
Great Book
I loved everything about this book. The information was incredible. I found myself repeatedly rewinding to take notes here and there, and that doesn't even include the recipes. This reading would've suffered with any other narrator. His voice and inflection is perfectly suited for this read.
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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- challenging
- 04-15-18
Interesting
Incredibly interesting but easy to get lost in the time line. The author goes into much detail including historic recopies and quirky facts about the use of salt through time and how it's shaped history. The reader is outstanding with superb inflection and tone.
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- Richard Marquiss
- 11-25-20
Very interesting and intriguing history!
The book was a fun walk through history via something we take for granted! Very enjoyable!
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- K. Furr
- 10-04-15
Entertaining and informative
Any additional comments?
This is an engaging, entertaining, and informative history of salt. I've found I like this genre -- a kind of societal history of some everyday thing -- much along the lines of something you might see from Bill Bryson. If you think you might be into that, this is for you.
As for the vocal performance ... you only need to know it's Scott Brick. Scott Brick is 5 stars and 5 stars is Scott Brick, and that's the way it is until Audible lets me hand out more than 5 stars.
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Fascinating Account
This book is a great listen for anyone who loves food, history and politics. Thoroughly enjoyable.
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