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　　In the vein of the bestselling Salt and Cod, a gripping

chronicle of the myth, mystery, and uncertain fate of the world’s

most popular fruit

In this fascinating and surprising exploration of the banana’s

history, cultural significance, and endangered future,

award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel gives readers plenty of food

for thought. Fast-paced and highly entertaining, Banana takes us

from jungle to supermarket, from corporate boardrooms to kitchen

tables around the world. We begin in the Garden of Eden—examining

scholars’ belief that Eve’s “apple” was actually a banana— and

travel to early-twentieth-century Central America, where aptly

named “banana republics” rose and fell over the crop, while the

companies now known as Chiquita and Dole conquered the marketplace.

Koeppel then chronicles the banana’s path to the present,

ultimately—and most alarmingly—taking us to banana plantations

across the globe that are being destroyed by a fast-moving blight,

with no cure in sight—and to the high-tech labs where new bananas

are literally being built in test tubes, in a race to save the

world’s most beloved fruit.

The World's Most Humble Fruit

PART i: Family Trees

　CHAPTER I: And God Created the Banana

　CHAPTER 2: A Banana in Your Pocket?

　CHAPTER 3: The First Farm

　CHAPTER 4: All in the Family

PART II: Expansion

　CHAPTER 5: Asia

　CHAPTER 6: Pacific

　CHAPTER 7: Africa

　CHAPTER 8: Americas

　……

　　Dan Koeppel, author of the critically

acclaimed memoir To See Every Bird on Earth, is an

award-winning outdoors and adventure writer whose work has been

featured in The New York Times Magazine, Outside, National

Geographic Adventure, the Los Angeles Times, and Popular

Science.

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In the vein of Mark Kurlansky's bestselling Salt and Cod, a gripping chronicle of the myth, mystery, and uncertain fate of the world’s most popular fruit

In this fascinating and surprising exploration of the banana’s history, cultural significance, and endangered future, award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel gives readers plenty of food for thought. Fast-paced and highly entertaining, Banana takes us from jungle to supermarket, from corporate boardrooms to kitchen tables around the world. We begin in the Garden of Eden—examining scholars’ belief that Eve’s “apple” was actually a banana— and travel to early-twentieth-century Central America, where aptly named “banana republics” rose and fell over the crop, while the companies now known as Chiquita and Dole conquered the marketplace. Koeppel then chronicles the banana’s path to the present, ultimately—and most alarmingly—taking us to banana plantations across the globe that are being destroyed by a fast-moving blight, with no cure in sight—and to the high-tech labs where new bananas are literally being built in test tubes, in a race to save the world’s most beloved fruit.