Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey Volume 45

by Gary Paul Nabhan

Book Overview

Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family's history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and his expertise as an ethnobotanist, Nabhan describes the critical roles that Semitic peoples and desert floras had in setting the stage for globalized spice...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520267206
• ISBN13: 9780520267206
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"