About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-100374226881

ISBN-139780374226886

eBay Product ID (ePID)123486

Product Key Features

Book TitleOranges

Number of Pages149 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAgriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science, History, Essays

Publication Year1967

GenreCooking, Technology & Engineering, Literary Collections

AuthorJohn Mcphee

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight9.6 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN66-020125

Reviews"Fascinating. A sterling example of what a fresh point of view, a clear style, a sense of humor and diligent investigation can do to reveal the inherent interest in something as taken-for-granted as your morning orange juice." -- Edmund Fuller, The Wall Street Journal, "Fascinating. A sterling example of what a fresh point of view, a clear style, a sense of humor and diligent investigation can do to reveal the inherent interest in something as taken-for-granted as your morning orange juice." --Edmund Fuller, The Wall Street Journal, Fascinating. A sterling example of what a fresh point of view, a clear style, a sense of humor and diligent investigation can do to reveal the inherent interest in something as taken-for-granted as your morning orange juice.

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal641.3/431

Table Of Content1. Oranges 2. Orange Men 3. Citrus Sinensis 4. Orangeries 5. Indian River 6. Degrees Brix 7. Orange Baron

SynopsisA 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.