Full name: Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World

Author: Dan Koeppel Year: 2007 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Science Purchase/reserch links: Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books Goodreads eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780452290082 9781594630385 1594630380

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. Similar books: The Code Book by Simon Singh The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Cod by Mark Kurlansky Salt by Mark Kurlansky The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough Hackers by Steven Levy The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan The Cracking Code Book by Simon Singh The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston The Information by James Gleick Meetings with Remarkable Trees by Thomas Pakenham Reading the Forested Landscape by Tom Wessels Coming of Age In The Milky Way by Timothy Ferris How to Make a Spaceship by Julian Guthrie Atomic Accidents by James Mahaffey Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin