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Oranges by John McPhee (1975, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374512973
ISBN-13
9780374512972
eBay Product ID (ePID)
123889

Product Key Features

Book Title
Oranges
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science, History, Essays, Specific Ingredients / General
Publication Year
1975
Genre
Cooking, Technology & Engineering, Literary Collections
Author
John Mcphee
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
7.7 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
66-020125
Reviews
"Fascinating. A sterling example of what a fresh point of view, a clear style, a sense of humor and diligent investigation can do to reveal the inherent interest in something as taken-for-granted as your morning orange juice." --Edmund Fuller, The Wall Street Journal "It is a delicious book, in a word, and more absorbing than many a novel." --Roderick Cook, Harper's, "Fascinating. A sterling example of what a fresh point of view, a clear style, a sense of humor and diligent investigation can do to reveal the inherent interest in something as taken-for-granted as your morning orange juice." -- Edmund Fuller, The Wall Street Journal "It is a delicious book, in a word, and more absorbing than many a novel." -- Roderick Cook, Harper's, "This text offers a detailed overview of recent advances in biohybrid systems interfacing nerves, muscles and machines ... The chapters are well written and despite being a multi-authored work there is little repetition and good links to other sections." ( Electrodiagnostics and Clinical Engineering , 2012), "Fascinating. A sterling example of what a fresh point of view, a clear style, a sense of humor and diligent investigation can do to reveal the inherent interest in something as taken-for-granted as your morning orange juice." --Edmund Fuller, The Wall Street Journal, "Fascinating. A sterling example of what a fresh point of view, a clear style, a sense of humor and diligent investigation can do to reveal the inherent interest in something as taken-for-granted as your morning orange juice." --Edmund Fuller,The Wall Street Journal It is a delicious book, in a word, and more absorbing than many a novel." --Roderick Cook,Harper's, Fascinating. A sterling example of what a fresh point of view, a clear style, a sense of humor and diligent investigation can do to reveal the inherent interest in something as taken-for-granted as your morning orange juice.
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
641.3/431
Table Of Content
1. Oranges 2. Orange Men 3. Citrus Sinensis 4. Orangeries 5. Indian River 6. Degrees Brix 7. Orange Baron
Synopsis
A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually found that he had in fact written a book. It contains sketches of orange growers, orange botanists, orange pickers, orange packers, early settlers on Florida's Indian River, the first orange barons, modern concentrate makers, and a fascinating profile of Ben Hill Griffin of Frostproof, Florida who may be the last of the individual orange barons. McPhee's astonishing book has an almost narrative progression, is immensely readable, and is frequently amusing. Louis XIV hung tapestries of oranges in the halls of Versailles, because oranges and orange trees were the symbols of his nature and his reign. This book, in a sense, is a tapestry of oranges, too--with elements in it that range from the great orangeries of European monarchs to a custom of people in the modern Caribbean who split oranges and clean floors with them, one half in each hand.
LC Classification Number
SB370.O7M3 1975

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by nowhuffo11 Oct, 2021
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by i6LTMNwJQnm@Del...08 Sep, 2011
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I bought this book for school, but I thought this book was very boring. Not eating oranges or drinking orange juice might have influenced this, however. Overall this book was a summary of orange history up to 1966. If I had the option not to read this book I wouldn't.

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