Spice: The History of a Temptation by Jack Turner

Spice: The History of a Temptation

Jack Turner

384 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative slow-paced
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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 wat...

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