Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World

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Illustrated
2008
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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 304
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 30 Dec 2008
ISBN 10: 0452290082
ISBN 13: 9780452290082

Media Reviews

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

Author Bio

Dan Koeppel, a 2011 James Beard Award winner, is a science and nature writer who has written for National Geographic, Outside, Scientific American, Wired, and other national publications. He has discussed bananas on NPR's Fresh Air and Science Friday.