The discovery of chocolate

James Runcie

first published 2001 HarperCollins, 2001 247 pages

From the author's site (see link): The Discovery of Chocolate is a comic, philosophical love story about one man’s five hundred year obsession with love and chocolate. Twenty year old Diego de Godoy travels from Spain to Aztec Mexico with the conquistadors. But instead of coming back with gold he returns with chocolate and discovers that both he, and his greyhound Pedro, have accidentally drunk the elixir of life at...

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The discovery of chocolate. edition · 2002 · Howes · 282 pages
The discovery of chocolate edition · 2002 · HarperCollins · 250 pages
The discovery of chocolate edition · 2001 · HarperCollins · 247 pages
The discovery of chocolate edition · 2001 · HarperCollins · 264 pages

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