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Between East and West

The Moluccas and the Traffic in Spices Up to the Arrival of Europeans

By: R. A. Donkin

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Between East and West

The Moluccas and the Traffic in Spices Up to the Arrival of Europeans

By: R. A. Donkin

Up to & including the Age of Discoveries, the wealth of the East was thought in Europe to consist primarily of spices & aromatics. Cloves, nutmeg, mace, & sandalwood all were thought to come from a few small islands in easternmost Indonesia, which no European reached before 1500. Yet supplies of these luxury products were reaching China, India, western Asia, & the Mediterranean lands more than a thousand years earlier. This study of Moluccan spices opens with their natural history & nomenclature, & the discovery of the Islands by Europeans near the opposing (& controversial) limits of Spanish & Portuguese jurisdiction. Donkin traces the expanding interest & long-distance trade in cloves, nutmeg, & sandalwood, first to India & then to the adjacent Arabo-Persian world. The medieval West & China lay on the margins of diffusion, the former in touch with the Levant, the latter with the trading world of South East Asia.

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Pearls and Pearl-fishing : Origins to the Age of Discoveries

By: R. A. Donkin

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Pearls and Pearl-fishing : Origins to the Age of Discoveries

By: R. A. Donkin

Man has been intrigued by the origin of pearls, sensitive to their beauty, and convinced of their medicinal value for at least 5 cent. A mixture of folklore and observation preceded the earliest scientific inquiries. Fishing and trade commenced in S. Asia, between India and Sri Lanka and around the Persian Gulf. In W. and Central Europe, Inner Asia and China, and N. Amer. Freshwater pearls were probably known and treasured before those of marine origin. A refined nomenclature points to a long familiarity with etymologically related words for 'pearl'. Pearls were prominent among the luxury products of world trade and were high among the objectives of expeditions to the eastern and western Tropics. Illustrations.

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0871692244

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Dragon’s Brain Perfume

An Historical Geography of Camphor

By: R.A. Donkin

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An Historical Geography of Camphor

By: R.A. Donkin

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 Antiquity (ca. 6th century A.D.). In India it was in use at an even much earlier period. The present monograph opens with a survey of aromata generally - origins, time and place of demand - from the Ancient Civilizations to the Age of Discoveries. Chapter two concerns the natural history of camphor; subsequent chapters are organized by regions (India, Western Asia, the medieval West, South East Asia, China and Japan), with a postscript on Origins and Diffusion. Evidence is drawn from an extensive range of sources in natural and cultural history.The work includes 15 original maps, 28 illustrations, and an extensive bibliography.

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9004644784

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Pearls and Pearl-fishing : Origins to the Age of Discoveries

By: R. A. Donkin

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Dragon's Brain Perfume

An Historical Geography of Camphor

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An Historical Geography of Camphor

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Camphor - origin, distribution, disposal, use - is here examined in the wider context of Old World "aromata." Evidence is drawn from an extensive range of sources in natural and cultural history. Fifteen original maps, twenty-eight other illustrations, and extensive bibliography.

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9004109838

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Between East and West

The Moluccas and the Traffic in Spices Up to the Arrival of Europeans

By: R. A. Donkin

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Dragon’s Brain Perfume

An Historical Geography of Camphor

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The Peccary

With Observations on the Introduction of Pigs to the New World

By: R. A. Donkin

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The Peccary

With Observations on the Introduction of Pigs to the New World

By: R. A. Donkin

Distribution, habitat, and biology; Description; Scientific nomenclature; Distribution; Habitat and diet; Biology and behavior; The preccary in human economy and society; The Pre-Columbian period; European contact; Folk nomenclature; Hunting; Taboo, ceremony, and myth; Towards domestication; Animal domestication in the humid tropics; Additional vernacular names for the peccary.

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0871697556

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The Ra Material

An Ancient Astronaut Speaks

By: Ra (Spirit),Don Elkins,James Allen McCarty,Carla Rueckert

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The Ra Material

An Ancient Astronaut Speaks

By: Ra (Spirit),Don Elkins,James Allen McCarty,Carla Rueckert

Book Four of the Law of One is the last of the books in the Law of One series. Book Four explores in great detail the archetypical mind which is the framework provided by our Logos or sun body to aid each of us in the evolution of mind, body, and spirit. Tarot, astrology, and ritual magic are three paths offering the study of the archetypical mind, and in Book Four a study of that rich resource is undertaken using the tarot, also uncovered on the nature and purpose of the veil that we experience between the conscious and the unconscious minds and the process of "forgetting" that occurs during each incarnation in our third-density experience. In Book Four the path of the adept becomes more clear as Ra elucidates the adept's use of experience to balance its energy centers and penetrate the veil of forgetting.

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Ra present

35 jaar Galerie Ra

By: Galerie Ra

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35 jaar Galerie Ra

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Explores the concept of 'producing editions' and features jewellery, vessels and object by fifty gallery artists -- From back cover.

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Between East and West

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