 | The Frozen Water Trade: A True Story by Gavin Weightman
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $1.40 A clever Yankee merchant saw a need and filled it: Frederick Tudor developed a way to preserve Ice from frozen New England and ship it to South America, making history and a fortune.
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 | Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $3.30 Kurlansky takes a simple subject: Salt, and uses it to trace world history, from the way the Roman Army paid its troops (salary, or salt) to its use in food preservation.
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 | Spice: The History of a Temptation by Jack Turner
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $5.21 The Spice Route led early explorers from Europe to Asia, and the search for spices led adventurers to the New World.
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 | Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.09 |
 | Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization by Iain Gately
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.45 |
 | Vanilla: The Cultural History of the World's Favorite Flavor and Fragrance by Patricia Rain
Buy used from: $5.63 |
 | Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth by William Bryant Logan
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.07 |
 | The Water Wizard: The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water by Viktor Schauberger
Buy used from: $21.81 |
 | Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Flourishing on the Congo on the Year of Grace 1906 by E., D. Morel
Buy new: $29.50 / Used from: $35.47 E.D. Morel was one of the europeans who saw the moral wrongs of the regime of Belgium's King Leopold and exposed them. Along with Irish Nationalist Roger Casement, Morel was instrumental in bringing to an end the brutal regime's quest for Rubber.
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 | The Book of Tea (Stone Bridge Classics) by Kakuzo Okakura
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $4.76 |
 | Big Cotton: How A Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map by Stephen Yafa
Buy used from: $0.08 |
 | The True History of Chocolate by Sophie D. Coe
Buy used from: $3.90 |
 | A History Of The World In Six Glasses by Tom Standage
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $5.90 |
 | The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee by Stewart Lee Allen
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.55 |
 | Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind by Henry Hobhouse
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $7.11 Another clever use of examples from the natural kingdom... cotton, hemp,and other plants...to explain history.
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 | The Story of Corn by Betty Fussell
Buy new: $23.89 / Used from: $16.24 Corn was developed in the New World...it became a source of food, a religious symbol, and a traded commodity.
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 | The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are by Henry Petroski
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | A Short History of the Printed Word by Warren Chappell
Buy used from: $6.85 |
 | The Golden Spruce: A True Story Of Myth, Madness, And Greed by John Vaillant
Buy used from: $5.50 |
 | Opium: A History by Martin Booth
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.74 |
 | Firecrackers: The Art and History by Warren Dotz
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $1.51 |
 | Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney W. Mintz
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.93 |
 | The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire by Tom Zoellner
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.49 Fascinating book about diamonds and their effect on people: greed, lust, murder, intrique.
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 | The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $1.48 |
 | The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.) by Simon Winchester
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $1.73 |
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