num_pages: 2
description: Listening time  2h 2mPollan takes us on a journey through the history of the drug which was first discovered in a small part of East Africa and within a century became an addiction affecting most of the human species. Caffeine it turns out has changed the course of human history - won and lost wars changed politics dominated economies. What's more the author shows that the Industrial Revolution would have been impossible without it. The science of how the drug has evolved to addict us is no less fascinating.
language: English
title: Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
publisher: Audible Original