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Earnest, plot-driven, classical in form and grave.
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Simon Winchester
- First published
- April 1, 2003
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial, Thorndike Press, HarperCollins
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060937362
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“Though we think first of Java as an eponym for coffee (or, to some today, a computer language), it is in fact the trading of aromatic tropical spices on which the fortunes of the great island colonizers and western discoverers were first found.”
Author and journalist <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Winchester>Simon Winchester</a> was born in England but favours the United States.
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