Spice Route A History

Name: Spice Route A History
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ISBN: 9780520248960

ISBN-10: 0520248961

ISBN-13: 9780520248960

Edition: 2006

Authors: John Keay

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The Spice Route is one of history's greatest anomalies: shrouded in mystery, it existed long before anyone knew of its extent or configuration. Spices came from lands unseen, possibly uninhabitable, and almost by definition unattainable; that was what made them so desirable. Yet more livelihoods depended on this pungent traffic, more nations participated in it, more wars were fought for it, and more discoveries resulted from it than from any other global exchange. Epic in scope, marvelously detailed, laced with drama,The Spice Routespans three millennia and circles the world to chronicle the history of the spice trade. With the aid of ancient geographies, travelers' accounts, mariners'…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/15/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 308
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

John Keay's recent books includeSowing the Wind: the Mismanagement of the Middle East 1900-1960andLast Post: The End of Empire in the Far East.




Before the fall



On the origin of species



Frankincense and Cinnamon



Hippalos and the passage across



Land of the luminous carbuncle



Insects on splinters



The world travellers



East to west



Christians and spices



Peppered ports and curried friar



Pacific approaches



Blue water



Infected by spices


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