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3 of 55 unique roads. A road can belong to several topics and still has one guide and URL.

Nonfiction

Nonfiction · Culture & Everyday Life

Coffee

Follow coffee from African botanical ancestry through cultivation, coffeehouses, plantations, machines and living traditions.

10 chapters · 10 completed chapter reviews

Nonfiction · Culture & Everyday Life

Tea

Follow tea through ancient evidence, written culture, global trade, colonial conflict and living landscapes.

10 chapters · 10 completed chapter reviews

Nonfiction · Culture & Everyday Life

Chocolate

Trace cacao from ancient American evidence to industrial chocolate and unresolved supply-chain challenges.

9 chapters · 9 completed chapter reviews