TY  - BOOK
AU  - Koeppel,Dan
TI  - Banana: the fate of the fruit that changed the world 
SN  - 9780452290082
AV  - SB379.B2 K66 2009
U1  - 634/.772 22
PY  - 2009///,c2008
CY  - New York
PB  - Plume
KW  - Bananas
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-264) and index; The world's most humble fruit -- Family trees. And God created the banana -- A banana in your pocket? -- The first farm -- All in the family -- Expansion. Asia -- Pacific -- Africa -- Americas -- Corn flakes and coup d'etas. Bringing bananas home -- Taming the wild -- Why banana peels are funny -- Sam the Banana Man -- No bananas today -- Man makes a banana -- The banana massacre -- The inhuman republics -- Straightening out the business -- Never enough. Knowledge is powerless -- Pure science -- A second front -- No respite -- Brand name bananas -- Guatemala -- Good-bye, Michel. Cavendish -- Falling apart -- Embracing the new -- Chronic injury -- Banana plus banana -- A savior? -- Golden child -- A new banana. A long way from Panama -- Know your enemies -- A banana crossroads -- Frankenbanana -- Still the octopus? -- The way out
N2  - From its early beginnings in Southeast Asia, to the machinations of the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica and Central America, the banana's history and its fate as a victim of fungus are explored
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