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  • How Caffeine Created the Modern World
  • Written by: Michael Pollan
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  • Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (272 ratings)

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Caffeine

Written by: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Pollan
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Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. In this controversial and exciting listen, Pollan explores caffeine’s power as the most-used drug in the world - and the only one we give to children (in soda pop) as a treat.

Pollan takes us on a journey through the history of the drug, which was first discovered in a small part of East Africa and within a century became an addiction affecting most of the human species. Caffeine, it turns out, has changed the course of human history - won and lost wars, changed politics, dominated economies. What’s more, the author shows that the Industrial Revolution would have been impossible without it. The science of how the drug has evolved to addict us is no less fascinating. And caffeine has done all these things while hiding in plain sight! Percolated with Michael Pollan’s unique ability to entertain, inform, and perform, Caffeine is essential listening in a world where an estimated two billion cups of coffee are consumed every day.

©2019 Michael Pollan (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC.

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EYE OPENING

A deep dive into the unknown world of a molecule that controls humanity. uffff!

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Caffeine Lover

I chose this book only because of the title.But ended up enjoying it while sipping on my coffee. Light and easy listening with a bit of history and economics thrown in. #butfirstcoffee

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Incredible

Very informative, in the best possible language & vocabulary. Impeccable story telling. Must listen.

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Average book

this did tell me a few things about caffeine that I didn't know , but not sure what I got from this.

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Great Book about journey of Coffee

This is a great book about the journey of coffee from Africa and how it propagated over time and continents for centuries.

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Caffeine, Plants and Homo-sapiens

This was insightful and very interesting, I was expecting more informative narration and details. At some point one might realise there is too much repetition of facts.

Though overall this listen was okayish.

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informative

Informative.. and filled with surprising facts. as a coffee lover myself, I am in awe of the far reaching implications of coffee and the impact it has had on the world we live in.

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A history and geography of caffeine!

Michael Pollan, author of the masterful treatise 'Cooked', presents a comprehensive review of the history and usage, including physiological effects, of caffeine in different forms, mainly coffee. The story is made more poignant for being a personal narrative, as Pollan abstained from his regular daily cuppas while he was writing this.

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Captivating tell of the dark liquid

It was crisp and to the point. It had a lot of interesting historical facts, I didn’t know before. The narration was great, to top it of, as an icing on the cake.

Worth a read… or listen!

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It is steaming hot

I have been a tea and coffee since I was nine. As a seasoned drinker of these beverages, I thought I deserved this story but it was in the air yet. Thanks to Michael Pollan for presenting this story so incredibly well that I now see Tea and coffee in a new light. it is literally like having Ultraviolet vision to see our daily cup!

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