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Spice: The History of a Temptation Jack Turner
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Spice: The History of a Temptation, by Jack Turner (2005). Oh spices, nothing inflamed the beginnings of the New World like spices. It's not too much of a surprise, really, just how much the scent of spices can affect someone. A brilliant, original history of the spice trade—and the appetites that fueled it. Spice: The History of a Temptation. It was in search of the fabled Spice Islands and their cloves that Magellan charted the first circumnavigation of the globe. Here is another book I like--Spice: A History of Temptation. The spice trade has profoundly affected human history, yet I know next to nothing about it. Working my way through Spice: The History of a Temptation still. The Spice Trade: A Bibliographic Guide to Sources of Historical and Economic Information, by Jeanie M. The Spice Route: A History, by John Keay (2007). Spice seems to have had something to do with everything politics, exploration, religion and especially $$$.