The food explorer the true adventures of the globe-trotting botanist who transformed what America eats
The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes--and thousands more--to the American plate.
| Main Author: | Stone, Daniel 1985- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Chance encounters
- One thousand dollars
- East of Suez
- Guest and protégé
- The listless Pacific
- One cause, one country
- Crossing countries
- Alligator pears
- Grapes of a Venetian monk
- Citrus maxima
- Lemons, leaves, and the dawn of new light
- On the banks of the Tigris
- Bell's grand plan
- A brain awhirl
- Cherry trees with no cherries
- The urge to walk
- Outlaws, brigands, and murderers
- Fly the coop
- Sad and mad and so utterly unnecessary
- Wij zijn Amerikanen
- Epilogue.