My son and daughter gave me a Kindle for my birthday a couple years ago. I love it!
One of my 700 books is American Nation, A History by Edward Potts Cheyney. It has like 28 volumes. Volume 1 says that any history of America has to start in Europe in the 1300's. The food was so bad that pepper was literally worth its weight in gold; and pepper only grew on the west coast of India. Hence the spice routes -- the camel caravans to Alexandria and the Black Sea. And people like Christopher Columbus started thinking if I took a few ships and headed west, I could bring back a whole shipload of peppercorns. More on this book later -- I'm a history fan..
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