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The food explorer : the true adventures of the globe-trotting botanist who transformed what America eats / Daniel Stone.

By: Stone, Daniel (Daniel Evan), 1985- [author].
Contributor(s):
Twombly, Matthew [illustrator,, cartographer.]
Material type: Book; Format: print; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Non-fiction Publisher: New York : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018
Summary:
The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who travelled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes - and thousands more - to the American plate.
Description:
xvi, 397 pages, 8 pages unnumbered plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map, photographs ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781101990582
1101990589
Subject(s):
Fairchild, David, 1869-1954
Botanists -- United States -- Biography
Botanists
Genre/Form:
Biography.
Biographies.
Contents:
Chance encounters -- One thousand dollars -- East of Suez -- Guest and protégé -- The listless Pacific -- One cause, one country -- Crossing countries -- Alligator pears -- Grapes of a Venetian monk -- Citrus maxima -- Lemons, leaves, and the dawn of new light -- On the banks of the Tigris -- Bell's grand plan -- A brain awhirl -- Cherry trees with no cherries -- The urge to walk -- Outlaws, brigands, and murderers -- Fly the coop -- Sad and mad and so utterly unnecessary -- Wij zijn Amerikanen -- Epilogue.
Summary:
The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who travelled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes - and thousands more - to the American plate.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Monterey Public Library Adult NonFiction 580.92/FAIRCHILD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31971005918144
Adult Book Adult Book Pacific Grove Public Library Adult NonFiction 580.92/FAIRCHILD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 37487002948863
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-337) and index.

Chance encounters -- One thousand dollars -- East of Suez -- Guest and protégé -- The listless Pacific -- One cause, one country -- Crossing countries -- Alligator pears -- Grapes of a Venetian monk -- Citrus maxima -- Lemons, leaves, and the dawn of new light -- On the banks of the Tigris -- Bell's grand plan -- A brain awhirl -- Cherry trees with no cherries -- The urge to walk -- Outlaws, brigands, and murderers -- Fly the coop -- Sad and mad and so utterly unnecessary -- Wij zijn Amerikanen -- Epilogue.

The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who travelled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes - and thousands more - to the American plate.

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