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Cumin, camels, and caravans [electronic resource] : a spice odyssey / Gary Paul Nabhan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: California studies in food and culture ; 45.Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (333 pages)ISBN:
  • 9780520956957
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 382.456645 23
LOC classification:
  • HD9210.A2
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Contents:
Aromas emanating from the driest of places -- Caravans leaving Arabia Felix -- Uncovering hidden outposts in the desert -- Omanis rocking the cradle of civilization -- Mecca and the migrations of Muslim and Jewish traders -- Going east: merging the spice routes with the Silk Roads -- Selling your wares where the sun goes down -- Building bridges between continents and cultures -- From China to Africa: a steady stream of spice traders -- The beginning of the end: Vasco da Gama and the dubious age of discovery -- The drawbridge across the Eastern ocean.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-292) and index.

Aromas emanating from the driest of places -- Caravans leaving Arabia Felix -- Uncovering hidden outposts in the desert -- Omanis rocking the cradle of civilization -- Mecca and the migrations of Muslim and Jewish traders -- Going east: merging the spice routes with the Silk Roads -- Selling your wares where the sun goes down -- Building bridges between continents and cultures -- From China to Africa: a steady stream of spice traders -- The beginning of the end: Vasco da Gama and the dubious age of discovery -- The drawbridge across the Eastern ocean.

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