The Devil's Cup
eBook - ePub

The Devil's Cup

Coffee, the Driving Force in History

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Devil's Cup

Coffee, the Driving Force in History

About this book

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. As they might say in Starbucks: 'Enjoy.'

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Information

Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781841951430
eBook ISBN
9781847677518

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. A Season in Hell
  7. Ethiopian Prayer
  8. Sailing to al-Makkha
  9. An Evil Sister
  10. Java
  11. Monkey Droppings
  12. Mother Caleustta
  13. the Man. in the Red Hat
  14. War
  15. the Revolution
  16. Paris
  17. the Sultan’s Earache
  18. At Sea
  19. Africa in Chains
  20. Preto Velho
  21. Officer Hoppe
  22. White-trash Cocaine
  23. Acknowledgmets
  24. Copyright