Stewart Lee Allen

The Devil's Cup

Coffee, the Driving Force in History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Only thing is, after retracing coffee's journey to world domination - by train, rickshaw, cargo freighter and donkey - he has plenty of evidence to back it up. Stewart Lee Allen has filtered out the richest beans from coffee's hot and frothy history .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books / Import
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 168g
• ISBN-13: 9781841951430
• ISBN-10: 1841951439
• Artikelnr.: 21591584

Autorenporträt

Currently living in Brooklyn, Stewart Lee Allen has also called California, Kathmandu, Sydney, San Cristobel, Calcutta and San Francisco home. When not lounging about a café in a far-flung corner of the globe, he has worked as a grape-picker, theatrical director, bathroom attendant, grave-digger, punk musician, smuggler and, of course, a writer. He is the author of the award-winning fiction collection The Art of Rape as well as his acclaimed history of coffee, The Devil's Cup.

Rezensionen

this is lively, interesting stuff, laced with dry wit and canny observations. Scotland on Sunday