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236 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780394579849
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Pantheon
Publication date: Not specified
Description
It began with pepper and other spices, like cinnamon and nutmeg, some eight hundred years ago. Then came coffee, tea, and chocolate, followed by alcohol and opium--all articles of pleasure people in the Western world craved in order to escape from...
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236 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780394579849
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Pantheon
Publication date: Not specified
Description
It began with pepper and other spices, like cinnamon and nutmeg, some eight hundred years ago. Then came coffee, tea, and chocolate, followed by alcohol and opium--all articles of pleasure people in the Western world craved in order to escape from...