| 书目名称 | The Perfume Handbook | | 编辑 | Nigel Groom | | 视频video | | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | In 1948 I was posted, as a Political Officer, to a remote part of south-west Arabia on the edge of the great desert called the Empty Quarter. In valleys made fertile by seasonal flood-waters lay the remains of an ancient civilization. I found inscriptions and the ruin sites of towns, palaces and temples. Almost buried under the sand dunes were the tumbled walls of a great city. From here, two thousand years before, huge camel caravans had trudged their way along 1600 miles of burning sand and rocks to Petra and Gaza, burdened with a most precious cargo - frankincense, myrrh and other perfume materials for the courts, temples and perfume shops of Rome. My book Frankincense and Myrrh delved into the details of this romantic trade and led to a broader interest in the perfumes of ancient times. Then, researching on behalf of a perfume house into the Arab contribution to perfumery, I came across the collection of perfume recipes assembled by the Arab philosopher-scientist Yaqub al-Kindi, which have never been translated into English (some, which I have translated myself, are now included in an appendix to this book). I realized that in that work I had found key evidence to demonstrate h | | 出版日期 | Book 1992 | | 关键词 | plants | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2296-2 | | isbn_softcover | 978-94-010-5015-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-011-2296-2 | | copyright | Nigel Groom 1992 |
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