Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World [Audiobook] download free by Mr Dan Koeppel
- Listen audiobook: Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
- Author: Mr Dan Koeppel
- Release date: 2009/2/2
- Publisher: PENGUIN PUTNAM INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Business, Finance and Law
- ISBN: 9780452290082
- Rating: 8 of 10
- Votes: 475
- Review by: Bailey Whitson
- Review rating: 9.22 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/25
- Duration: 3H28M14S in 256 kbps (56.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-25
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: Vorbis, WMA, FLAC, WavPack, AC3, MP3, WAV, MPEG4 (compression DMG, TZO, ZIP, ALZ, RAR, DEB, AZW)
- Total pages original book: 281
- Includes a PDF summary of 29 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 22M14S (5.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In the vein of Mark Kurlansky's bestselling Salt and Cod, a gripping chronicle of the myth, mystery, and uncertain fate of the world's most popular fruit In this fascinating and surprising exploration of the banana's history, cultural significance, and endangered future, award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel gives readers plenty of food for thought. Fast-paced and highly entertaining, Banana takes us from jungle to supermarket, from corporate boardrooms to kitchen tables around the world. We begin in the Garden of Eden-examining scholars' belief that Eve's 'apple' was actually a banana- and travel to early-twentieth-century Central America, where aptly named 'banana republics' rose and fell over the crop, while the companies now known as Chiquita and Dole conquered the marketplace. Koeppel then chronicles the banana's path to the present, ultimately-and most alarmingly-taking us to banana plantations across the globe that are being destroyed by a fast-moving blight, with no cure in sight-and to the high-tech labs where new bananas are literally being built in test tubes, in a race to save the world's most beloved fruit. Read Dan Koeppel's posts on the Penguin Blog.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Agriculture & Related Industries, Primary Industries, Social & Cultural History, Labour Economics, Agriculture & Farming, General & World History
- Download servers: FileServe, 1337x, Mediafire, MEGA, Hotfile, BitShare, 4Shared, JustCloud. Compressed in DMG, TZO, ZIP, ALZ, RAR, DEB, AZW
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 16.67 USD
- Dimensions: 135x201x18mm
- Weight: 249g
- Printed by: New American Library
- Published in: New York, United States
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