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• Text by Lorenzetti, Linda Rice; Photographs by Lorenzetti, Daniel

But before coffee beans are imported, ground or brewed, they are planted, nurtured, and harvested by an estimated 25 million people for whom coffee is a livelihood. In this book, Linda Rice Lorenzetti and Daniel Lorenzetti trace the annual coffee cycle across five continents, from the Dutch plantations of Sumatra to the mountains of Costa Rica, recording in evocative prose and striking images the hard labor and big business within this centuries-old industry. In its specially processed coffee-toned prints, the book celebrates the distant landscapes and cultural vitality that infuse the coffee trade.

This book is the centerpiece of the multimedia Birth of Coffee project, a multiplatform initiative intended to foster the understanding of the people and places involved in the production of coffee worldwide.