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Brunner, Bernd

 
9781771644075: Taming Fruit: How Orchards Have Transformed the Land, Offered Sanctuary, and Inspired Creativity
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ISBN 10 : 1771644079 ISBN 13 : 9781771644075
Editeur : Greystone Books,Canada, 2021

Synopsis

A captivating cultural and scientific history of orchards, for readers of Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire and Mark Kurlansky's Salt.

Throughout history, orchards have nourished both body and soul: they are sites for worship and rest, inspiration for artists and writers, and places for people to gather. In Taming Fruit, award-winning writer Bernd Brunner interweaves evocative illustrations with masterful prose to show that the story of orchards is a story of how we have shaped nature to our desires for millennia.

As Brunner tells it, the first orchards may have been oases dotted with date trees, where desert nomads stopped to rest. In the Amazon, Indigenous people maintained mosaic gardens centuries before colonization. Modern fruit cultivation developed over thousands of years in the East and the West. As populations expanded, fruit trees sprang from the lush gardens of the wealthy and monasteries to fields and roadsides, changing landscapes as they fed the hungry.

But orchards don't just produce fruit; they also inspire great artists. Taming Fruit shares paintings, photographs, and illustrations alongside Brunner's enchanting descriptions and research, offering a multifaceted---and long-awaited--portrait of the orchard.

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À propos de l'auteur

Bernd Brunner is the author of several books including Birdmania and Winterlust, and his writings have appeared in publications around the world including Lapham's Quarterly, theParis Review, Quartz, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Wall Street Journal. He divides his time between Istanbul and Berlin.

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Éditeur
Greystone Books,Canada
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1771644079
ISBN 13 
9781771644075
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
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Personne responsable
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