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The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession
por Gollner, Adam
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- As New/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 038566267X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385662673
- Livreiro
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A tight, clean, and unmarked copy-" Delicious, lethal, hallucinogenic and medicinal, fruits have led nations to war, fueled dictatorships and lured people into new worlds. An expedition through the fascinating world of fruit, The Fruit Hunters is the engrossing story of some of Earth's most desired foods. In lustrous prose, Adam Leith Gollner draws readers into a Willy Wonka-like world with mangoes that taste like piña coladas, orange cloudberries, peanut butter fruits, and the miracle fruit that turns everything sour to sweet, making lemons taste like lemonade. Peopled with a cast of characters as varied and bizarre as the fruit -- smugglers, inventors, explorers, and epicures -- this extraordinary book unveils the mysterious universe of fruit, from the jungles of Borneo to the prized orchards of Florida's fruit hunters to American supermarkets. 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. An intrepid journalist and keen observer of nature -- both human and botanical -- Adam Leith Gollner has written a vivid tale of horticultural obsession."
Sinopse
Adam Leith Gollner has traveled around the globe to report on the fruit underworld. He’s written for The New York Times , Gourmet , Bon Appetit, and Good Magazine . The former editor of Vice Magazine , he is also a musician. The Fruit Hunters is his first book. He lives in Montreal and Los Angeles.
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- Livreiro
- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE
(CA)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 19946
- Título
- The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession
- Autor
- Gollner, Adam
- Estado do livro
- Novo
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Near Fine
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- ISBN 10
- 038566267X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385662673
- Editorial
- Doubleday Canada
- Local de publicação
- Canada
- Data de publicação
- 2008
- Dimensão
- 8 vo
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