Banana

Banana
The Fate of the Fruit That
Changed the World

Dan Koeppel


Banana

Banana
The Fate of the Fruit That
Changed the World

Dan Koeppel


HUDSON STREET PRESS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. • Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) • Penguin Books Ltd., 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England • Penguin Ireland, 25 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd.) • Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty. Ltd.) • Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd., 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi – 110 017, India • Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd.) • Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty.) Ltd., 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd., Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England First published by Hudson Street Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Copyright © Dan Koeppel, 2008 All rights reserved
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Koeppel, Dan. Banana : the fate of the fruit that changed the world / Dan Koeppel. p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 1-4295-9325-3 1. Bananas. I. Title.
SB379.B2K66 2008
634'.772—dc22 2007038398
Page ii: Originally published in The Banana: Its History, Cultivation, and Place Among Staple Foods by Philip K. Reynolds. Page 5: Courtauld Institute Galleries, London; published under Wikimedia Creative Commons license. Page 11: Photo by Alan Lakritz. Licensed under Creative Commons. Original image at www.Flickr.com/photos/35188692@N00/133805120/. Page 54: Courtesy Ann Lovell. Page 61: Author’s collection. Page...