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Author:

Stone, Daniel (Daniel Evan), 1985- author.

Title:

The food explorer : the true adventures of the globe-trotting botanist who transformed what America eats / Daniel Stone.

Publisher:

Duttonan imprint of Penguin Random House,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xvi, 397 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, some color, map ; 24 cm

Subject:

Fairchild, David,--1869-1954.
Botanists--United States--Biography.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-385) and index.

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.

Summary:

The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who travelled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes - and thousands more - to the American plate. Print run 40,000.

ISBN:

1101990589
9781101990582

OCLC:

(OCoLC)988851760

LCCN:

2017030324

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