Stewart Lee Allen

The Devil's Cup (eBook, ePUB)

Coffee, the Driving Force in History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847677518
• Artikelnr.: 40379403

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

this is lively, interesting stuff, laced with dry wit and canny observations. Scotland on Sunday