Banana
Subtitle: the fate of the fruit that changed the world
By: Dan Koeppel
Publisher: Plume; Hudson Street Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780452290082
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Bananas
Description: "Award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel navigates across the planet and throughout history, telling the cultural and scientific story of the world's most ubiquitous fruit"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: The world's most humble fruit -- -- pt. 1.; title: Family trees -- -- ch. 1.; title: And God created the banana -- -- ch. 2.; title: A banana in your pocket? -- -- ch. 3.; title: The first farm -- -- ch. 4.; title: All in the family -- -- pt. 2.; title: Expansion -- -- ch. 5.; title: Asia -- -- ch. 6.; title: Pacific -- -- ch. 7.; title: Africa -- -- ch. 8.; title: Americas -- -- pt. 3.; title: Corn Flakes and coup d'etas -- -- ch. 9.; title: Bringing bananas home -- -- ch. 10.; title: Taming the wild -- -- ch. 11.; title: Why banana peels are funny -- -- ch. 12.; title: Sam the Banana Man -- -- ch. 13.; title: No bananas today -- -- ch. 14.; title: Man makes a banana -- -- ch. 15.; title: The banana massacre -- -- ch. 16.; title: The inhuman republics -- -- ch. 17.; title: Straightening out the business; title: Pt. 4.; title: Never enough -- -- ch. 18.; title: Knowledge is powerless -- -- ch. 19.; title: Pure science -- -- ch. 20.; title: A second front -- -- ch. 21.; title: No respite -- -- ch. 22.; title: Brand name bananas -- -- ch. 23.; title: Guatemala -- -- pt. 5.; title: Good-bye, Michel -- -- ch. 24.; title: Cavendish -- -- ch. 25.; title: Falling apart -- -- ch. 26.; title: Embracing the new -- -- ch. 27.; title: Chronic injury -- -- ch. 28.; title: Banana plus banana -- -- ch. 29.; title: A savior? -- -- ch. 30.; title: Golden child -- -- pt. 6.; title: A new banana -- -- ch. 31.; title: A long way from Panama -- -- ch. 32.; title: Know your enemies -- -- ch. 33.; title: A banana crossroads -- -- ch. 34.; title: Frankenbanana -- -- ch. 35.; title: Still the octopus? -- -- ch. 36.; title: The way out --; title: A banana time line --; title: Bibliography --; title: Acknowledgments --; title: Index