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Jim Backstrom
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Jim Backstrom Jim Backstrom said: " Interesting read

A book from another time. The author reveals at the end he traveled to Brazil via Zeppelin from his native Germany in 1932 to research this history of coffee. I wish he was around today to bring it up to date "

 
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