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The spice route : a history
- Title
- The spice route : a history / John Keay.
- Author
- Keay, John.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 07-1966 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xv, 288 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill., maps (some col.); 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- California studies in food and culture ; 17
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published: London : John Murray, c2005.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-270) and index.
- Contents
- Before the fall. -- On the origin of Species. -- Frankincense and cinnamon. -- Hippalos and the passage across. -- Land of the luminous carbuncle. -- Insects on splinters. -- The world travellers. -- East to West. -- Christians and spices. -- Peppered ports and curried friar. -- Pacific approaches. -- Blue water. -- Infected by spices. -- Epilogue: Outsold and outsourced.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-1966
- ISBN
- 0520248961 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780520248960 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006044546
- OCLC
- 65407727
- Author
- Keay, John.
- Title
- The spice route : a history / John Keay.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
- Series
- California studies in food and culture ; 17
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-270) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-1966