Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug

Imagine your typical morning routine: you stumble out of bed, groggy-eyed, and head straight for that lifesaving cup of coffee. But the story behind that cup of joe is a wild one you probably haven't heard. Coffee's epic tale unfolds in the lush highlands of El Salvador, where the Mancunian James Hill blended Industrial Revolution innovations with coffee farming to set the stage for a coffee dynasty that would rock the early 1900s. El Salvador became the poster child for extreme productivity, but not without a heavy cost. Coffeeland is an eye-opening story of one of the most prized commodities in the world and the inequalities that success wrought.

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