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.