Banana
The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
By Dan Koeppel
By Dan Koeppel
By Dan Koeppel
By Dan Koeppel
Category: Business | World History
Category: Business | World History
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Paperback $18.00
Dec 30, 2008 | ISBN 9780452290082
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Praise
“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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