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Banana ─ The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
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ISBN13：9780452290082
出版社：Plume
作者：Dan Koeppel
出版日：2008/12/30
裝訂／頁數：平裝／281頁
規格：20.3cm*14.0cm*1.9cm (高/寬/厚)
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In the vein of the bestselling Salt and Cod, a gripping chronicle of the myth, mystery, and uncertain fate of the worldA's most popular fruit
In this fascinating and surprising exploration of the bananaA's history, cultural significance, and endangered future, award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel gives readers plenty of food for thought. Fast-paced and highly entertaining, Banana takes us from jungle to supermarket, from corporate boardrooms to kitchen tables around the world. We begin in the Garden of EdenA-examining scholarsA' belief that EveA's A"appleA" was actually a bananaA- and travel to early-twentieth-century Central America, where aptly named A"banana republicsA" rose and fell over the crop, while the companies now known as Chiquita and Dole conquered the marketplace. Koeppel then chronicles the bananaA's path to the present, ultimatelyA-and most alarminglyA-taking us to banana plantations across the globe that are being destroyed by a fast-moving blight, with no cure in sightA-and to the high-tech labs where new bananas are literally being built in test tubes, in a race to save the worldA's most beloved fruit.
In this fascinating and surprising exploration of the bananaA's history, cultural significance, and endangered future, award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel gives readers plenty of food for thought. Fast-paced and highly entertaining, Banana takes us from jungle to supermarket, from corporate boardrooms to kitchen tables around the world. We begin in the Garden of EdenA-examining scholarsA' belief that EveA's A"appleA" was actually a bananaA- and travel to early-twentieth-century Central America, where aptly named A"banana republicsA" rose and fell over the crop, while the companies now known as Chiquita and Dole conquered the marketplace. Koeppel then chronicles the bananaA's path to the present, ultimatelyA-and most alarminglyA-taking us to banana plantations across the globe that are being destroyed by a fast-moving blight, with no cure in sightA-and to the high-tech labs where new bananas are literally being built in test tubes, in a race to save the worldA's most beloved fruit.
作者簡介
Dan Koeppel is a well-known outdoors, nature, and adventure writer who has written for the New York Times Magazine, Outside, Audubon, Popular Science, and National Geographic Adventure, where he is a contributing editor. Koeppel has also appeared on CNN and Good Morning America, and is a former commentator for Public Radio International's Marketplace.
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