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A biological and cultural history of the banana cites the fruit's role in the development of Central American nations and international business, citing diseases that are threatening the survival of the banana while profiling banana-inspired hobbies and traditions.
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"Required reading."--New York Post
"Ambitious in scope... both fascinating and disturbing... I'll never walk through the produce aisle the same way again... [Banana] is at once a political and economic treatise, a scientific explication, and a cultural history."--The Boston Globe "Clear, engaging... admirable... part historical narrative and part pop-science adventure."--San Francisco Chronicle "[A] brilliant history."--Seattle Post-Intelligencer "A fascinating and surprising history of our most ubiquitous fruit."--Edward Humes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Monkey Girl and Mississippi Mad"The history of oil has nothing on that of the yellow fruit."--Salon.com
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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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- PublisherHudson st Pr
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1594630380
- ISBN 13 9781594630385
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages289
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