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Oranges
Engelsk
Bogcover for Oranges af John McPhee, 9780374512972
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
176
ISBN-13:
9780374512972
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0374512973
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 jan 1975
Størrelse i cm:
13,9 x 20,9 x 1,3
Oplagsdato:
1 jan 1975
Forfatter(e):

Oranges

Engelsk
Paperback 1975
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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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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
176
ISBN-13:
9780374512972
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0374512973
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 jan 1975
Størrelse i cm:
13,9 x 20,9 x 1,3
Oplagsdato:
1 jan 1975
Forfatter(e):
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