Food in History
by Tannahill, Reay
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0140469214
- ISBN 13
- 9780140469219
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About This Item
Penguin Books, London, 1988. Revised Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Fifth Impression or later. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 424 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. "When the idea of "Food in History" first occurred to me, I was mystified by the fact that no one had already tackled this fascinating subject. No one had studied the question of how, over half a million years, food and the search for it had influenced both human and historical development; no on had tried to correlate the information turned up by all the twentieth-century 'ologies' - archaeology and anthropology, biology, ecology, technology and zoology among them. During the next seven years I discovered why. It was not the kind of book anyone with a grain of sense or sanity would have embarked on (and in pre-word-processing days, too).... Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; Britain/UK; Cooking, Wine & Dining. ISBN: 0140469214. ISBN/EAN: 9780140469219. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7358. . 9780140469219
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-409) and index.
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7358
- Title
- Food in History
- Author
- Tannahill, Reay
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140469214
- ISBN 13
- 9780140469219
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- BZDB137 Food--History, Dinners and dining, produce, preparation, hunting, fishing, farming, History; Britain/UK; Cooking, Wine & Dining. ISBN: 0140469214 EAN: 9780140469219 Tannahill, Reay Food in History
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