Oranges
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 a…
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- ISBN: 978-0-374-22688-6
- EAN: 9780374226886
- Produktnummer: 35440321
- Verlag: Farrar Strauss & Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1967
- Seitenangabe: 149 S.
- Masse: H21.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D1.7 cm 295 g
- Gewicht: 295
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John McPhee
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