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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Aug 2005, 2005
- Softcover
- Neu
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, DeutschlandAHA-BUCH GmbH
Verkäufer:in bei ZVAB seit 14. August 2006
Zustand: Neu
EUR 28,14
Artikelbeschreibung des Verkäufers
Neuware - 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.…
Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780375707056
- Titel
- Spice : The History of a Temptation
- Autor
- Jack Turner
- Verlag
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Aug 2005
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2005
- Zustand
- Neu
- Einband
- Taschenbuch
- Sprache
- Englisch
- ISBN-10
- 0375707050
- ISBN-13
- 9780375707056
- Artikelgewicht
- 381 Gramm
- Abmessungen
- 209x160x20 mm
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 globe—and 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
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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor
Jack Turner was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1968. He received his B.A. in Classical Studies from Melbourne University and his Ph.D. in International Relations from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and MacArthur Foundation Junior Research Fellow. He lives with his wife, Helena, and children in Geneva. Spice: The History of a Temptation is his first book.
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