Looking for some interesting reads.

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  History of objects or things is another of my favorite areas, for example, Salt by Mark Kurlansky, Tobacco, Black Gold, etc.

What suggestions can you guys make?
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I lost interest in the Terry Goodkind series at about book three, so my novel tastes may not be of any interest to you.

Farley Mowat has a few interesting histories written.

The Farfarers is an interesting speculation about the people who might have preceded the Norse to the Americas. It includes a fair bit of the history of the walrus hunt.

Sea of Slaughter gives a history of the exploitation of the resources of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

The Serpents Coil is the true story of a cargo vessel with a doomed design and the amazing salvage of it by a group of Newfoundlanders.

And, lastly, a book that caught me by surprise. People of the Abyss by Jack London is something I picked up recently just because I wanted to read another "White Fang" kind of story. But it is not fiction. The author went 'underground' as a sort of investigative reporter in the slums of London in 1902. This is his account of what he found there.