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03239aim a2200433Ka 4500 001 CDBC2EF2AA0511EE99E4BB4527ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240103010037 006 m h 007 cr una--- 007 sz usn nn ed 008 230721s2023 nyu s 000 0 eng d 020 $a 9798350855319 (sound recording) 040 $a TEFOD $c TEFOD $d SILO 084 $a CKB041000 $a CKB035000 $a CKB041000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a McPhee, John. 245 10 $a Oranges $h [electronic resource]. $c John McPhee. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a Old Saybrook : $b Tantor Audio, $c 2023. 300 $a 1 online resource (5 audio files) : $b digital 306 $a 04:15:52 500 $a Unabridged. 511 0 $a Narrator: Grover Gardner. 520 $a A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a magazine article, but John McPhee kept encountering so much irresistible information that he wrote a book. It is perhaps the last word on the subject (the first came in 500 BC and is attributed to Confucius). McPhee writes about the botany, history, and industry of oranges, from the great orangeries of European monarchs to a fascinating profile of Ben Hill Griffin of Frostproof, Florida, who may be the last of the individual orange barons. Oranges developed in Southeast Asia, and they spread through the world with a timing closely parallel to the spread of Western civilization. It was Columbus himself who brought the first orange seeds to the New World. Botanically, they are spectacularly complicated. They can be completely unripe when they are a brilliant orange and deliciously ripe when they are green as emeralds. Citrus is so genetically perverse that oranges can grow from lime seeds. Most Florida oranges grow on lemon roots. Louis XIV hung tapestries of oranges in the halls of Versailles because oranges and orange trees were the symbols of his nature and his reign. This book, in a sense, is a tapestry of oranges, too-with elements in it that range from the customs of French kings to those of people in the modern Caribbean who split oranges and clean floors with them, one half in each hand. 538 $a Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser. 650 17 $a Nonfiction. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Cooking & Food. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Essays. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a History. $2 OverDrive 655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local 700 1 $a Gardner, Grover. 856 40 $u http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=251&titleID=9924975 $z Click to download here. 856 4 $3 Excerpt $u https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ea13f945-1103-4c30-939c-48737258bde9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com $z Sample 856 4 $3 Image $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1219-1/%7BEA13F945-1103-4C30-939C-48737258BDE9%7DIMG100.JPG $z Large cover image 856 4 $3 Thumbnail $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1219-1/%7BEA13F945-1103-4C30-939C-48737258BDE9%7DIMG200.JPG $z Thumbnail cover image 856 40 $3 Click for more information $u https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1B0wAAAA2Z/products/ea13f945-1103-4c30-939c-48737258bde9 $x 1370 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20240103010131.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CDBC2EF2AA0511EE99E4BB4527ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search