| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9781594630385 | | Publisher: Hudson Street Press | | Publish Date: 12/27/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 204815880 | | Item#: R2CXFQ | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.75H x 5.75L x 1T |
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Pablo Neruda's famous protest poem, "The United Fruit Co.," begins: "When the trumpet sounded/all was prepared on the earth/and Jehovah parceled out the world/to Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda/Ford Motors, and other entities:/the United Fruit Company Inc./reserved for itself the juiciest bit/the central coast of my land/the gentle waist of America." The fruit in question is the banana, and it may be hard to believe now, with oil and technology companies ruling the corporate world, just how powerful the influence of the banana has been, not just in South America, but around the world. Dan Koppel traces the history of this ubiquitous fruit, from its humble origins to its ascension as the most eaten fruit on the planet.
| Praise| "In BANANA, Koeppel, a longtime outdoors and adventure writer, weaves a multifaceted story about how the fruit's unique nature has allowed it to become a worldwide food staple and a geopolitical force that has both shaped and toppled nations.||In the hands of a lesser writer, the book's multiple personalities - it is at once a political and economic treatise, a scientific explication, and a cultural history - might have proved unwieldy. Koeppel, though, weaves all of these elements together seamlessly enough that the reader really doesn't notice." - Ralph Ranalli 01/03/2008 |
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