Devil's Cup A History of the World According to Coffee

Name: Devil's Cup A History of the World According to Coffee
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ISBN: 9780345441492

ISBN-10: 0345441494

ISBN-13: 9780345441492

Edition: 2003 (Reprint)

Authors: Stewart Lee Allen

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In this captivating book, Stewart Lee Allen treks three-quarters of the way around the world on a caffeinated quest to answer these profound questions: Did the advent of coffee give birth to an enlightened western civilization? Is coffee, indeed, the substance that drives history? From the cliffhanging villages of Southern Yemen, where coffee beans were first cultivated eight hundred years ago, to a cavernous coffeehouse in Calcutta, the drinking spot for two of India’s three Nobel Prize winners . . . from Parisian salons and cafés where the French Revolution was born, to the roadside diners and chain restaurants of the good ol’ U.S.A., where something resembling brown water passes for…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English