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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Scribner
Publication date
June 11, 2013
Pages
285
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781476704999
ISBN-10
1476704996
Dimensions
1 by 5.50 by 8.25 in.
Weight
0.60 lbs.
Original list price
$16.00
Other format details
sci/tech
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: This vivid and unforgettable expedition through the world of exotic fruit, from an author with âthe talents of a food writer, investigative journalist, poet, travel writer, and humoristâ (The New York Times Book Review), is being made into a documentary starring Bill Pullman.
A vivid and unforgettable expedition through the world of exotic fruit, The Fruit Hunters is the engrossing story of some of Earthâs most desired foods told by an intrepid journalist and keen observer of natureâboth human and botanical.
Delicious, lethal, hallucinogenic and medicinal, fruits have led nations to war, fueled dictatorships and lured people into new worlds. Adam Gollner examines the fruits we eat and explains why we eat them (the scientific, economic and aesthetic reasons); traces the life of mass-produced fruits (how they are created, grown and marketed) and explores the underworld of fruits that are inaccessible, ignored and even forbidden in the Western world. Peopled with a cast of characters as varied and bizarre as the fruit it discussesâsmugglers, inventors, explorers and epicuresâthis extraordinary book can âfill a thousand and one summer nights with delightful readingâ (The Miami Herald ).
A vivid and unforgettable expedition through the world of exotic fruit, The Fruit Hunters is the engrossing story of some of Earthâs most desired foods told by an intrepid journalist and keen observer of natureâboth human and botanical.
Delicious, lethal, hallucinogenic and medicinal, fruits have led nations to war, fueled dictatorships and lured people into new worlds. Adam Gollner examines the fruits we eat and explains why we eat them (the scientific, economic and aesthetic reasons); traces the life of mass-produced fruits (how they are created, grown and marketed) and explores the underworld of fruits that are inaccessible, ignored and even forbidden in the Western world. Peopled with a cast of characters as varied and bizarre as the fruit it discussesâsmugglers, inventors, explorers and epicuresâthis extraordinary book can âfill a thousand and one summer nights with delightful readingâ (The Miami Herald ).
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