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Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Travels across culture, history and geography to show how intertwined people are with the fruits they eat. The ranks of the fruit-obsessed include adventurers, scientists, fruit detectives and even movie star Bill Pullman, fruit hunters dedicating themselves to searching for and saving rare and exotic fruit, and to creating a Garden of Eden in a world increasingly dominated by industrialized monoculture.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
Presents the experiences and contributions of early adventurers, explorers, and scientists responsible for discovering and documenting new types of plants, showing how their often dangerous voyages help establish the field of botany.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of six men who shared a passion for plants and a love of gardening in eighteenth-century London, who made Britain the epicenter of horticulture, and transformed gardening from an aristocratic pastime to a national obsession.
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