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P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

1814–1897

A restless 19th-century writer and journalist, he turned practical subjects like trade, food, industry, and exploration into lively reading. His books range widely, but they share a strong curiosity about how the wider world worked.

3 Audiobooks

Coffee and chicory : Their culture, chemical composition, preparation for market, and consumption, with simple tests for detecting adulteration, and practical hints for the producer and consumer

Coffee and chicory : Their culture, chemical composition, preparation for market, and consumption, with simple tests for detecting adulteration, and practical hints for the producer and consumer

by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

The curiosities of food : or, The dainties and delicacies of different nations obtained from the animal kingdom

The curiosities of food : or, The dainties and delicacies of different nations obtained from the animal kingdom

by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

About the author

Born in Denmark and brought up in Britain, Peter Lund Simmonds became a journalist, editor, and prolific nonfiction writer whose interests stretched across commerce, agriculture, natural resources, food, and Arctic exploration.

Sources consulted during this search describe him as the founder of Simmonds' Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany. A scholarly article also notes that he went to sea very young in the merchant marine and later worked as a bookkeeper in Jamaica before building his writing career.

That unusually broad experience shows in his books, which often explain the practical side of everyday materials and global trade. Titles associated with him include works on food, hops, animal products, sea products, and the Arctic, making him a good example of the energetic Victorian writer who connected science, industry, and empire for general readers.