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nation like pus-filled sores, oozing a joe weak, bitter, and vile. “You’re in coffee hell,” emailed one man, but he could have left out the word coffee. We were driving across a plain greasy with heat, broken only by clusters of sagging
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I am always on the lookout for fine Yemen Coffees - I found the beginning of the book where he describes his travels through Africa and Yemen searching for coffees , I found engrossing - though poorly written. As he continues through to the USA, the style and substance of his writings ( as you can see from the above text "greasy with heat … Yea, verily…) became disagreeable : so 2 stars from me .
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