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Oranges

Oranges

Oranges
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Oranges

by John McPhee

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ISBN 10
0374512973
ISBN 13
9780374512972
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket. Pictorial wraps. 8vo, 149pp.

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. 

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Bookseller
NWJBOOKS US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
006657
Title
Oranges
Author
John McPhee
Format/Binding
Soft cover
Book Condition
New
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0374512973
ISBN 13
9780374512972
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2000
Keywords
nonfiction

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Pictorial Wraps
Pictorial wraps are color illustrated covers for paperback books. Preceding mass-market paperbacks, this format brought popular...
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