Coffee: The Epic of a Commodity
by:
Lynn Alley (author)
H.E. Jacob (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781580800709 (158080070X)
Publish date: February 1st 1999
Publisher: Burford Books
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Heinrich Eduard Jacob was a pacifist German Jew whose work was blacklisted by the Nazis since 1933. Nevertheless, in 1935 he managed to publish Myth and the Triumphal March of Coffee, as the saga of the commodity--this is a translation of that work. Alas, I lost interest in this quickly. It's not...