Cover of The Coffee-House

Book 2003

The Coffee-House

2 readers

Publisher
Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated
Published
2003
  • Coffeehouses
  • History
  • Social aspects
  • Social aspects of Coffeehouses
  • Social life and customs
  • London (england), history
  • Great britain, history
  • Ireland, history

Anchoring below the customs house steps at Constantinople on the evening of 28 September 1610, the Armado, out of Simo, a Greek sponge divers' bark not much larger than a Gravesend wherry, must have made a singularly unimposing impression on the officers of the Sublime Porte.