Mustafin O. Hot Story. Incredible Adventures of Spices in the World of People Book

Go around the world in your house slippers? Find remnants of ancient civilizations in your own home? Nothing is impossible. Just open this book and head into the kitchen... in search of pepper, cinnamon and other spices. 

Today we spice up our daily meals and drinks. But once they were valued more than gold, considered worthy only of the gods and hunted for them, not sparing their lives. Alexander the Great's soldiers, crusader knights and Spanish conquistadors gathered for spices; Buddhist monks and Muslim merchants traveled for them; Roman trireme, Chinese "ships-cases", Portuguese caravels, Dutch "flutes" crossed oceans and seas...

With the pursuit of spices began the Great Geographical Discoveries and colonial conquests, the world market emerged and capitalism was born. 

Than thousands of years attracted mankind hot spices and why they so quickly lost their value - in a fascinating "Hot Story" by Alexei Mustafin. 

Number of pages: 192