Name: The Devil's Cup
ISBN: 9781641290104

Stewart Lee Allen

Allen's insatiable, unquenchable curiosity drives him to explore coffee's catalytic effect upon world empires and mankind itself.

A History of the World According to Coffee

The Devil's Cup

A wild ride through the history of coffee offers a humorous revisionist take on world events with this magic bean as the prime mover of everything from Napoleon's downfall to the prosperity of America. Reprint.

Sarah Sammis

The Devil's Cup has some interesting moments but I was hoping for a more comprehensive history of the drink. This book is just a travelogue of someone apparently famous who is wandering around the world for different types of coffee drinks. It's not much more interesting than reading about someone's pub crawls from around the world. Most of the facts that are in this book I already knew so I didn't come away feeling I had learned much.

Interesting at first, but not all about coffee. There was a drawn-out section about the writer being involved in some painting scandal that wasn’t relevant to the book at all. Did enjoy the coffee stuff though 

Alex lee 

Ratna yuriasari

Buku ini pertama kali saya baca tahun 2004 semasa masih rajin ngopi di Bakoel Koffie di Barito Jakarta Selatan. Buku petualangan pencarian kenikmatan secangkir kopi yang bikin saya jatuh cinta sama dunia ini, sampai sekarang.

Pierke Bosschieter

This comprehensive work provides an account of caffeine's impact on humankind. Beginning in Ethiopia, the author sails along the same route that carried the first beans to Yemen 1500 years ago, and literally travels the world in his mission to prove that coffee is the driving force in history.

The Devil's Cup A History of the World According to Coffee

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