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First Published:
Aug 2004, 368 pages
Paperback:
Aug 2005, 384 pages
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Welcome to the glamorous and romantic world of spice. Turner's history is arranged thematically with essays exploring different aspects, such as exploration, love, romance and religion. Although he consciously avoids using sweeping statements such as 'changed the world', he explains that the search for spices sparked a whole complex of activities we have come to take for granted, but which were anything but inevitable.
Selected Review:
'In his fascinating new book…Jack Turner not only gives the reader a wonderfully
vivid history of the quest for spices and the lucrative spice trade, but he also
provides some intriguing insights into why spices once exerted such a hold over
the human imagination -- and how they catalyzed the Age of Discovery.' - The New
York Times.
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