Oranges
A Environment, Essays, Natural History book. If I'd paid attention in AP European History I may've cared about the pages covering royalty fascinated by oranges. Apart...
While many readers are familiar with John McPhee's masterful pieces on a large scale (the geological history of North America, or the nature of Alaska), McPhee is equally remarkable when he considers the seemingly inconsequential. Oranges was conceived as a short magazine piece, but thanks to his unparalleled investigative skills, became a slim, fact-filled book. As McPhee chronicles orange farmers struggling with frost and horticulturists' new breeds of citrus, oranges come to seem a microcosm of man's relationship with nature. Like Flemish miniaturists who reveal the essence of humankind within the confines of a tiny frame, McPhee once again demonstrates that the smallest topic is replete with history, significance, and consequence.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 160 pages
- ISBN: 9780141182032 / 141182032
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If I'd paid attention in AP European History I may've cared about the pages covering royalty fascinated by oranges. Apart from that eighth of the book it was an engaging, surprisingly intricate look at the fruit and the people it's created. Major ups to Ryan Winnett Murray for wanting me to reserve this book for him and failing to be... Yesterday, after dinner, Tina and I split an orange. This was a delicacy made new by my perusal of the John McPhee treatise Oranges this weekend. As with all McPhee books, this is filled with fun and fascinating facts that weave together into a compelling story. For instance: * An orange is always sweeter on the blossom end. I tested... This book was short so I managed to finish it but it was a close thing. The information that wasn't outdated was overshadowed by the author's horrible misogyny and racism.
