| #6607537 in Books | 1999-01-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.17 x.98 x6.46l,1.60 | File type: PDF | 307 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Expensive sure... but the only scholarly work ...|By A. Bell|Expensive sure...but the only scholarly work on camphor out there.|9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| You'll Never Think the Same Way about Camphor Again|By Caroline G. Sawyer|Admittedly, the title is a bit strange. But the high price gives it away: t||'..".an extremely valuable account with an encyclopaedic characterit will become a standard reference work for many scholars and is likely to stimulate our appetite for more scholarly works of this type - "commodity studies" on "little things" which many "theo
In the Dragon's Brain Perfume (a Chinese description of Camphor) once more the existence and importance of world systems of exchange becomes clear. In the pre-industrial world aromatic substances have always counted among the most prominent items of long-distance trade. The finest camphor came from Malaya, Borneo and Sumatra, but long-distance trade took it to societies at the geographical poles of demand - China and the medieval West already in late Antiqu...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Brill's Indological Library, Dragon's Brain Perfume: An Historical Geography of Camphor | Donkin. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
