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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Gollner, Adam, 1976- Fruit hunters. (OCoLC)883145867 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Adam Gollner |
ISBN: | 9781416565611 1416565612 |
OCLC Number: | 893685943 |
Notes: | Reprint. Originally published: 2008. "Now a feature-length documentary"--Cover |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 285 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Intro; Cover; Colophon; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Prologue Blame It on Brazil; IntroductionThe Fruit Underworld; Part 1 Nature; 1Wild, Ripe and Juicy: What Is a Fruit?; 2Hawaiian Ultraexotics; 3How Fruits Shaped Us; 4The Rare Fruit Council International; Part 2Adventure; 5Into Borneo; 6The Fruitarians; 7The Lady Fruit; 8Seedy: The Fruitleggers; Part 3Commerce; 9Marketing: From Grapples to Gojis; 10Miraculin: The Story of the Miracle Fruit; 11Mass Production: The Geopolitics of Sweetness; 12Permanent Global Summertime; Part 4Obsession 13Preservation: The Passion of the Fruit14The Case of the Fruit Detective; 15Making Contact with the Otherworld; 16Fruition: Or the Fever of Creation; Acknowledgments; Further Reading; About the Author |
Responsibility: | Adam Leith Gollner. |
Abstract:
A historical account of the role of fruit in the modern world explores the machinations of multi-national corporations in distributing exotic fruits, the life of mass-produced fruits, and the author's experience with unusual varieties that are unavailable in America.
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