Fruit
Subtitle: An Illustrated History
Contributors: Brian F. Self (Preface)
Publisher: Firefly Books
Published: September 6, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781552977804
Subjects: Life Sciences - Horticulture; History - General; Gardening / Horticulture; Gardening; Reference; Gardening/Plants; Pictorial works; Life Sciences - Botany; Botanical illustration - History; Fruit - Pictorial works; Gardening / Reference; Fruit; History
First sentence: The area of the Middle East known as the Fertile Crescent is popularly held to be the birthplace of human civilization, but it was also the cradle of many of today's commonly grown temperate-zone fruits.