Cumin, Camels, and Caravans A Spice Odyssey

Name: Cumin, Camels, and Caravans A Spice Odyssey
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ISBN: 9780520267206

ISBN-10: 0520267206

ISBN-13: 9780520267206

Edition: 2014

Authors: Gary Paul Nabhan

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Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family's history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and an ethnobotanical exploration of spices and their uses, Nabhan describes the critically important roles that Semitic peoples and desert floras had in setting the stages for globalized spice trade.Traveling along four prominent trade routes--the Silk Road, the Frankincense Trail, the Spice Route, and the Camino Real for chiles and chocolate--Nabhan follows the caravans of itinerant spice merchants from…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/7/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 332
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

He is a prize-winning author & naturalist, lives in Tucson, where he is director of conservation biology at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum & cofounder of Native Seeds/Search.