The Various Flavours of Coffee

By - Capella, Anthony

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Bantam Books, New York, 2008

ISBN 10 - 0751539430

ISBN 13 - 9780751539431

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Coffee industry

Shelf No - 6

Call Number - 813.6 CAP

Physical Description - 468 pages ; 23 cm

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It is 1895. Robert Wallis, would-be poet, bohemian and impoverished dandy, accepts a commission from coffee merchant Samuel Pinker to categorise the different tastes of coffee - and encounters Pinker's free-thinking daughters, Philomenia, Ada and Emily. As romance blossoms with Emily, Robert realises that the Muse and marriage may not be incompatible after all. Sent to Abyssinia to make his fortune in the coffee trade, he becomes obsessed with a negro slave girl, Fikre. He decides to use the money he has saved to buy her from her owner - a decision that will change not only his own life, but the lives of the three Pinker sisters . . .

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