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237 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)
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Language: English
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This is the story of saltpeter, the vital but mysterious substance craved by governments from the Tudors to the Victorians as an 'inestimable treasure.'National security depended on control of this organic material - that had both mystical and min...
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237 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)
ISBN/UID: None
Format: Not specified
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
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Description
This is the story of saltpeter, the vital but mysterious substance craved by governments from the Tudors to the Victorians as an 'inestimable treasure.'National security depended on control of this organic material - that had both mystical and min...