Coffeeland  One Man's Dark Empire by Augustine Sedgewick
epub | 1.93 MB | English |  Augustine Sedgewick |  2020 | Penguin Publishing Group

Description: The epic story of the rise of coffee in the Americas, and how it connected and divided the modern world
Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world-one of the most valuable commodities in the history of the global economy, the leading source of the world's most popular drug, and perhaps the most widespread word on the planet. Augustine Sedgewick's Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of how this came to be, tracing coffee's four-hundred-year transformation from a mysterious Ottoman ritual to an everyday necessity in gripping and immersive detail.
Sedgewick chronicles this history through a story that few coffee-drinkers, even those who work in the coffee industry, have heard. It centers on the volcanic highlands of El Salvador, where James Hill, born in the slums of Manchester, England, founded one of the world's great coffee dynasties at the turn of the twentieth century. Adapting the innovations of...

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