The Devil's Cup

Coffee, the Driving Force in History

Stewart Lee Allen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2001 | Main
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-84195-143-0 (ISBN)

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Can you handle mornings without a brew? No? Multiply that. Imagine an entire population under a cloud of lethargy, unable to kick start their days. Now introduce coffee. Bingo. The brain moves into over-drive and it's time for empire building.

So goes Stewart Lee Allen's crazy theory. 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 . . . serving up a steamy, high-energy brew that will stimulate you more than a triple-strength espresso.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.6.2001
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	176 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Getränke
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-84195-143-9 / 1841951439
ISBN-13	978-1-84195-143-0 / 9781841951430
Zustand	Neuware