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Illustrations

PLATES

1.A selection of spices

2.Frankincense gum oozing from a tree trunk in the nejd of Southern Oman

3.A Yemeni spice trader

4.Depiction of a camel caravan from the Middle Ages

5.Muslim women in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, selling vegetables, fruits, and spices

6.The facades of tombs cut from the rock cliff in Petra, Jordan

7.Ships arriving for trade in the harbors of the South China Sea

8.A stand selling mole preparations at the Flower Festival of San Angel, Mexico City

9.An Arab transformed into a taco vendor at a mobile food stand in Baja California Sur

FIGURES

1.An Omani forester approaches a frankincense tree

2.The al-Balid ruins near Salalah, Oman

3.A dhow near Lamu, Kenya

4.Bahla Fort in Oman

5.An oxen-driven water wheel being used for irrigation

6.Harira stews at Siwa Oasis in Egypt

7.A well in the Negev

8.Ruins of an ancient Omani trading center below the Jabal al-Akhdar plateau

9.Cloves spread out to dry in Zanzibar

10.Salman the Persian meeting merchants from the Quraysh tribe

11.Merchants in Timbuktu

12.Symbols carved above doorways in the Jewish section of Essaouira, Morocco

13.Herbal Viagra in a market in Dushanbe, Tajikistan

14.A camel train in Mongolia

15.Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, The Capitulation of Granada, 1882

16.The eastern part of the Anping Bridge, China

17.Qingjing Mosque in Quanzhou, China

18.A three-masted junk

19.Vasco da Gama delivering the letter of King Manuel of Portugal to the samuthiri of Calicut

20.The processing of cacao pods in the West Indies

MAPS

1.Spice trails of the Arabian Peninsula and Arabian Sea

2.Spice trails of the Sahara

3.Spice trails of the Desert Silk Roads and Maritime Silk Roads

4.Spice trails of the New World