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"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.
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Banana: the fate of the fruit that changed the world
2009, Plume, Hudson Street Press
in English
0452290082 9780452290082
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Table of Contents
The world's most humble fruit -- -- pt. 1.
Family trees -- -- ch. 1.
And God created the banana -- -- ch. 2.
A banana in your pocket? -- -- ch. 3.
The first farm -- -- ch. 4.
All in the family -- -- pt. 2.
Expansion -- -- ch. 5.
Asia -- -- ch. 6.
Pacific -- -- ch. 7.
Africa -- -- ch. 8.
Americas -- -- pt. 3.
Corn Flakes and coup d'etas -- -- ch. 9.
Bringing bananas home -- -- ch. 10.
Taming the wild -- -- ch. 11.
Why banana peels are funny -- -- ch. 12.
Sam the Banana Man -- -- ch. 13.
No bananas today -- -- ch. 14.
Man makes a banana -- -- ch. 15.
The banana massacre -- -- ch. 16.
The inhuman republics -- -- ch. 17.
Straightening out the business
Pt. 4.
Never enough -- -- ch. 18.
Knowledge is powerless -- -- ch. 19.
Pure science -- -- ch. 20.
A second front -- -- ch. 21.
No respite -- -- ch. 22.
Brand name bananas -- -- ch. 23.
Guatemala -- -- pt. 5.
Good-bye, Michel -- -- ch. 24.
Cavendish -- -- ch. 25.
Falling apart -- -- ch. 26.
Embracing the new -- -- ch. 27.
Chronic injury -- -- ch. 28.
Banana plus banana -- -- ch. 29.
A savior? -- -- ch. 30.
Golden child -- -- pt. 6.
A new banana -- -- ch. 31.
A long way from Panama -- -- ch. 32.
Know your enemies -- -- ch. 33.
A banana crossroads -- -- ch. 34.
Frankenbanana -- -- ch. 35.
Still the octopus? -- -- ch. 36.
The way out --
A banana time line --
Bibliography --
Acknowledgments --
Index
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-264) and index.
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