The Sea Made Men
Author : Gorham P. Low
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 39,94 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Seafaring life
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Author : Gorham P. Low
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 39,94 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Seafaring life
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Author : Roger W. Babson
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Page : 282 pages
File Size : 22,8 MB
Release : 2013-10
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ISBN : 9781494070311
This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.
Author : Marjorie Shaffer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 21,76 MB
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1250021006
Filled with anecdotes and fascinating information, "a spicy read indeed." (Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed the World) The perfect companion to Mark Kurlansky's Salt: A World History, Pepper illuminates the rich history of pepper for a popular audience. Vivid and entertaining, it describes the part pepper played in bringing the Europeans, and later the Americans, to Asia and details the fascinating encounters they had there. As Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds, said, "After reading Marjorie Shaffer's Pepper, you'll reconsider the significance of that grinder or shaker on your dining room table. The pursuit of this wizened berry with the bite changed history in ways you've never dreamed, involving extraordinary voyages, international trade, exotic locales, exploitation, brutality, disease, extinctions, and rebellions, and featuring a set of remarkable characters." From the abundance of wildlife on the islands of the Indian Ocean, which the Europeans used as stepping stones to India and the East Indies, to colorful accounts of the sultan of Banda Aceh entertaining his European visitors with great banquets and elephant fights, this fascinating book reveals the often surprising story behind one of mankind's most common spices.
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Page : 636 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Homiletical illustrations
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Author : Leonard George Carr Laughton
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Page : 590 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Great Britain
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Page : 638 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Congregational churches
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Page : 978 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 1918
Category : American literature
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Naval art and science
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Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 12,5 MB
Release : 1940
Category : America
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Page : 710 pages
File Size : 19,48 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Union catalogs
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