El ladrón de café
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Barcelona : Grijalbo :, [2016].
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8425354447, 9788425354441
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South Holland Public Library - Stacks | SPANISH HILLENBRAND | On Shelf |
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Published
Barcelona : Grijalbo :, [2016].
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Book
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489 pages ; 24 cm
Language
Spanish
ISBN
8425354447, 9788425354441
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Translation from German: Der Kaffeedieb.
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Map on endpapers.
Description
Chaldon es un joven terrateniente inglés, filósofo y aventurero. Tras arruinarse en el mercado de valores de Londres y falsificar unas letras de cambio, ha acabado en una cárcel de Ámsterdam. Un hombre de negocios de la todopoderosa Compañía Holandesa de las Indias Orientales le propone entonces un trato: la libertad y una jugosa compensación económica a cambio de que les consiga una planta de café. Se trata de una misión delicada que puede costarle el cuello... Y es que Europa entera se ha hecho adicta a ese exótico brebaje. Comerciantes, burgueses, estudiantes, eruditos y nobles se reúnen en los cafés de las principales capitales para tomar una taza mientras intercambian información de negocios, comentan los últimos descubrimientos y avances científicos, o debaten sobre las nuevas ideas políticas y sociales. Sin embargo, nadie más que los turcos pueden comerciarlo. Quien se acerca a los cultivos que tienen en la península arábiga, es castigado con la muerte.
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Chaldon is a young English landowner, philosopher and adventurer. After ruining himself in the London stock market and falsifying bills of exchange, he has ended up in a prison in Amsterdam. A businessman from the all-powerful Dutch East India Company then offers him a deal: freedom and a hefty financial compensation in return for a coffee plant. It is a delicate mission that can cost you the neck ... And that is that Europe has become addicted to that exotic brew. Traders, bourgeois, students, scholars and nobles gather in the cafes of major capitals for a cup while they exchange business information, comment on the latest discoveries and scientific breakthroughs, or debate new political and social ideas. However, no one but the Turks can trade it. Whoever approaches the crops they have in the Arabian peninsula is punished by death.
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In Spanish.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hillenbrand, T., Mabres Vicens, M., & Santana López, M. B. (2016). El ladrón de café (Primera edición.). Grijalbo :.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hillenbrand, Tom, 1972-, Marta, Mabres Vicens and María Belén, Santana López. 2016. El Ladrón De Café. Grijalbo.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hillenbrand, Tom, 1972-, Marta, Mabres Vicens and María Belén, Santana López. El Ladrón De Café Grijalbo, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hillenbrand, Tom, Marta Mabres Vicens, and María Belén Santana López. El Ladrón De Café Primera edición., Grijalbo :, 2016.
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