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Banana : the fate of the fruit that changed the world
- Title
- Banana : the fate of the fruit that changed the world / Dan Koeppel.
- Author
- Koeppel, Dan
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Plume, 2009.
- ©2008
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | SB379.B2 K66 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xix, 281 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel navigates across the planet and throughout history, telling the cultural and scientific story of the world's most ubiquitous fruit"--P. [4] of cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Informational works
- Informational works.
- Documents d'information.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-264) and index.
- Contents
- The world's most humble fruit -- Part 1. Family trees -- Chapter 1: And God created the banana -- Chapter 2: A banana in your pocket? -- Chapter 3: The first farm -- Chapter 4: All in the family -- Part II: Expansion -- Chapter 5: Asia -- Chapter 6: Pacific -- Chapter 7: Africa -- Chpater 8: Americas -- Part III: Corn Flakes and coup d'etas -- Chapter 9: Bringing bananas home -- Chapter 10: Taming the wild -- Chapter 11: Why banana peels are funny -- Chapter 12: Sam the Banana Man -- Chapter 13: No bananas today -- Chpater 14: Man makes a banana -- Chapter 15: The banana massacre -- Chapter 16: The inhuman republics -- Chapter 17: Straightening out the business.
- Part IV: Never enough -- Chapter 18: Knowledge is powerless -- Chapter 19: Pure science -- Chapter 20: A second front -- Chapter 21: No respite -- Chapter 22: Brand name bananas -- Chapter 23: Guatemala -- Part V: Good-bye, Michel -- Chapter 24: Cavendish -- Chapter 25: Falling apart -- Chapter 26: Embracing the new -- Chapter 27: Chronic injury -- Chapter 28: Banana plus banana -- Chapter 29: A savior? -- Chapter 30: Golden child -- Part VI: A new banana -- Chapter 31: A long way from Panama -- Chapter 32: Know your enemies -- Chapter 33: A banana crossroads -- Chapter 34: Frankenbanana -- Chapter 35: Still the octopus? -- Chapter 36: The way out -- A banana time line -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
- ISBN
- 9780452290082
- 0452290082
- LCCN
- 2007038398
- OCLC
- ocn233548089
- 233548089
- SCSB-13554652
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library