Banana : the fate of the fruit that changed the world /
Dan Koeppel.
- New York : Hudson Street Press, c2008.
- xix, 281 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-264) and index.
From its early beginnings in Southeast Asia, to the machinations of the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica and Central America, the banana’s history and its fate as a victim of fungus are explored.
9781594630385 1594630380
2007038398
Bananas. Bananos--Historia. Bananos--Cultivo. Bananos--Industria y comercio--Historia--América. Bananos--Variedades. Bananos--Enfermedades y plagas. Bananos--Producción. Bananos--Comercio.