Cargoes and harvests
By: by Donald Culross Peattie; maps by Beatrice Siegel.
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
Published: 1926
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Plants, Cultivated.; Tropical plants.
Notes: "Suggested reading" at end of each chapter except one.
Table of contents: title: Plant power.; title: The spices of Ind.; title: Quinine.; title: The age of rubber.; title: The five o'clock cup.; title: The vanishing vegetable dyes.; title: Camphor.; title: The potato.; title: Breadfruit and a mutiny.; title: The poppy.; title: Tobacco.; title: The reign of cotton.; title: The tree of the leper.; title: Our inherited crops.; title: Must we starve?