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Bernd Brunner

Taming Fruit

How Orchards Have Transformed the Land, Offered Sanctuary and Inspired Creativity

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A captivating cultural and scientific history of orchards, for readers of Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire and Mark Kurlansky's Salt. A perfect gift for gardeners and nature lovers. 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 tr… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Lantz, Lori (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-77164-408-2
  • EAN: 9781771644082
  • Produktnummer: 36723216
  • Verlag: Greystone Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 304 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Abbildungen: 80 illustrations, 10 b&w photos, 10 color photos

Über den Autor


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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