IT STARTED IN EDEN: How the Plant-Hunters and the Plants They Found Changed the Course of History.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1979) dj. Hardcover - An account of some of the early botanists, explorers and foot-loose travellers brought us such things as coffee, tea and chocolate, spices from black pepper to nutmeg, cloves and more - as well as medicinal herbs like quinine from the "fever bark tree." Bibliography, index. vii, 278 pp. ISBN: 0-070172900.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 87998
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