1,692円 An essential history of a taste that shaped the world. Spices: for centuries the staple of cuisine, remedies and ritual, they have commanded the highest of prices. To this day, saffron is, per ounce, one of our most expensive commodities. For their sake, fortunes have been made and lost and new w...

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1,257円 This edition does not include illustrations. A new biography of one of the most intrepid, romantic and fascinating of the great nineteenth-century travellers. Explorer, scholar, travel writer and poet, Charles Doughty was one of the great 19th-century adventurers. In the 1870s he spent two years ...

1,322円 The story of the 19th-century ice trade, in which ice from the lakes of New England – valued for its incredible purity – revolutionised domestic life around the world. In the days before artificial refrigeration, it was thought impossible to transport ice for long distances. But one man, Frederic...

1,555円 It was a catastrophe without precedent in recorded history: for months on end, starting in A.D. 535, a strange, dusky haze robbed much of the earth of normal sunlight. Crops failed in Asia and the Middle East as global weather patterns radically altered. Bubonic plague, exploding out of Africa, w...

267円 Sans s’en apercevoir, le temps s’écoule et la rage révolutionnaire, qui semblait un moment vouloir se calmer, a repris de nouvelles forces (*). Que faire ? encore une promenade, cela fait passer le temps : mais où aller ? voyons, réfléchissons... Presque toute l’Europe, hélas ! gémit des maux que...

267円 La pensée qui dirige notre curiosité, lorsqu’une pièce de théâtre est soumise à notre étude, est-elle le désir de trouver une représentation de mœurs qui nous sont inconnues ou l’expression d’un art dramatique indépendant ? Telle est la question que je me suis posée dans le moment même où je cher...

777円 Ever since Plato created the legend of the lost island of Atlantis, it has maintained a uniquely strong grip on the human imagination. For two and a half millennia, the story of the city and its catastrophic downfall has inspired people--from Francis Bacon to Jules Verne to Jacques Cousteau--to s...

777円 This lively and dramatic book brings roaring to life the grand sweep of 5,000 years of history in the cradle of civilization. A wonderfully illustrated account of the civilizations that rose and fell on the lands bordering the Mediterranean, The Middle Sea represents the culmination of a great hi...

933円 A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD NOTABLE BOOK After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greatest, most diverse empire the world had seen. Then, within a generation, the mighty structure collapsed, a rapid demise that left an array of dependenci...

1,088円 A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final moments of a millennial city under siege…. Byzantium: the successor of Greece and Rome, this magn...

777円 For Gwendolyn Wright, the houses of America are the diaries of the American people. They create a fascinating chronicle of the way we have lived, and a reflection of every political, economic, or social issue we have been concerned with. Why did plantation owners build uniform cabins for their sl...