If they’re ill, charge them extra
James Meek: Flamingo Plucking, 21 March 2002
Salt: A World History
by Mark Kurlansky.
Cape, 452 pp., £17.99, February 2002,0 224 06084 8 Show More
by Mark Kurlansky.
Cape, 452 pp., £17.99, February 2002,
Salt: Grain of Life
by Pierre Laszlo, translated by Mary BethMader.
Columbia, 220 pp., £15.95, July 2001,0 231 12198 9 Show More
by Pierre Laszlo, translated by Mary BethMader.
Columbia, 220 pp., £15.95, July 2001,
“... In 1870, the Imperial authorities in London ordered a heraldic designer to come up with a flag and crest for a part of the British Empire called Turks and Caicos. The designer had never heard of the place, but he was sent a sketch by a local artist which showed a typical scene: men wielding long-handled instruments and, behind them, large white mounds ... ”
