Banana

Banana

By
Dan Koeppel
Dan Koeppel
2007 • 281 pages

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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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Shocked by how intricate and complex the history behind this fruit is. Something we take for granted has caused so much pain, even lead to deaths, and has been the life's work of so many and haunted so many researchers.

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