Peppery winds
Subtitle: a novel of the 1st century CE
By: Lorenz Waldmann
Publisher: MediaLink
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Tenafly, New Jersey]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9781514120811
Subjects: Spice trade; Fiction; Pepper (Spice); Épices; Romans, nouvelles; Commerce; Poivre
Description: A spice merchant from Alexandria and a construction supervisor from the Temple in Jerusalem set out on the newly-discovered sea route to India in search of black pepper. If they can successfully exploit this new route and end the Arab monopoly on the pepper trade then glory and riches are theirs.