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ISBN10: 0375707050, ISBN13: 9780375707056, [publisher: Vintage] Softcover
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Vintage Books 2005 Softcover New Reprint edition. 352 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.75 inches.

Vintage Books, Date: 2005. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 352 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.75 inches. 2005. Vintage Books ISBN 0375707050 9780375707056 [GB]

ISBN10: 0375707050, ISBN13: 9780375707056, [publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. In this brilliant, engrossing work, Jack Turner explores an erafrom ancient times through the Renaissancewhen what we now consider common condiments were valued in gold and blood.Spices made sour medieval wines palatable, camouflaged the smell of corpses, and served as wedding night aphrodisiacs. Indispensible for cooking, medicine, worship, and the arts of love, they were thought to have magical properties and were so valuable that they were often kept under lock and key. For some, spices represented Paradise, for others, the road to perdition, but they were potent symbols of wealth and power, and the wish to possess them drove explorers to circumnavigate the globeand even to savagery.Following spices across continents and through literature and mythology, Spice is a beguiling narrative about the surprisingly vast influence spices have had on human desire.Includes eight pages of color photographs.One of the Best Books of the Year: Discover Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle A brilliant, original history of the spice trade—and the appetites that fueled it. It was in search of the fabled Spice Islands and their cloves that Magellan charted the first circumnavigation of the globe. Vasco da Gama sailed the dangerous waters around Africa to India on a quest for Christians—and spices. Columbus sought gold and pepper ...
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Vintage Books, Date: 2005. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 352 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.75 inches. 2005. Vintage Books ISBN 0375707050 9780375707056 [GB]

ISBN10: 0375707050, ISBN13: 9780375707056, [publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. In this brilliant, engrossing work, Jack Turner explores an erafrom ancient times through the Renaissancewhen what we now consider common condiments were valued in gold and blood.Spices made sour medieval wines palatable, camouflaged the smell of corpses, and served as wedding night aphrodisiacs. Indispensible for cooking, medicine, worship, and the arts of love, they were thought to have magical properties and were so valuable that they were often kept under lock and key. For some, spices represented Paradise, for others, the road to perdition, but they were potent symbols of wealth and power, and the wish to possess them drove explorers to circumnavigate the globeand even to savagery.Following spices across continents and through literature and mythology, Spice is a beguiling narrative about the surprisingly vast influence spices have had on human desire.Includes eight pages of color photographs.One of the Best Books of the Year: Discover Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle A brilliant, original history of the spice trade—and the appetites that fueled it. It was in search of the fabled Spice Islands and their cloves that Magellan charted the first circumnavigation of the globe. Vasco da Gama sailed the dangerous waters around Africa to India on a quest for Christians—and spices. Columbus sought gold and pepper ...
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New York, NY Vintage 2005 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 384 p. Contains: Illustrations.

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ISBN10: 0375707050, ISBN13: 9780375707056, [publisher: Random House] Softcover pp. 384
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ISBN10: 0375707050, ISBN13: 9780375707056, [publisher: Vintage] Softcover In English
[Uxbridge, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]

ISBN10: 0375707050, ISBN13: 9780375707056, [publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. In this brilliant, engrossing work, Jack Turner explores an erafrom ancient times through the Renaissancewhen what we now consider common condiments were valued in gold and blood.Spices made sour medieval wines palatable, camouflaged the smell of corpses, and served as wedding night aphrodisiacs. Indispensible for cooking, medicine, worship, and the arts of love, they were thought to have magical properties and were so valuable that they were often kept under lock and key. For some, spices represented Paradise, for others, the road to perdition, but they were potent symbols of wealth and power, and the wish to possess them drove explorers to circumnavigate the globeand even to savagery.Following spices across continents and through literature and mythology, Spice is a beguiling narrative about the surprisingly vast influence spices have had on human desire.Includes eight pages of color photographs.One of the Best Books of the Year: Discover Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle A brilliant, original history of the spice trade—and the appetites that fueled it. It was in search of the fabled Spice Islands and their cloves that Magellan charted the first circumnavigation of the globe. Vasco da Gama sailed the dangerous waters around Africa to India on a quest for Christians—and spices. Columbus sought gold and pepper ...
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ISBN10: 0375707050, ISBN13: 9780375707056, [publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2005-08-09, New York] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]

ISBN10: 0375707050, ISBN13: 9780375707056, [publisher: Vintage] Softcover
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ISBN10: 0375707050, ISBN13: 9780375707056, [publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2005-08-09, New York] Softcover Language: ENG
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