The Devil’s Cup: Coffee, the Driving Force in History

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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.

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Weight 0.19 kg
Dimensions 1.4 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Paperback
Language

Pages

240
Publisher

Year Published

2001-6-18
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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

1841951439
About The Author

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.

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