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The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Adventure.

Adam Leith Gollner

Published Spring 2008 by Random House / Doubleday Canada

Delicious, lethal, hallucinogenic, and medicinal—fruits have led nations to war, fueled dictatorships, and lured people into new worlds. An expedition through the bizarre and fascinating world of fruit, The Fruit Hunters is the engrossing story of one of earth’s most desired foods.

In lustrous prose Adam Leith Gollner draws readers into a Willy Wonka-like world with mangoes that taste like piña coladas, orange cloudberries, peanut butter fruits, and the miracle fruit that turns everything sour sweet, making lemons taste like lemonade. Peopled with a cast of characters as varied and magical as the fruit—smugglers, inventors, explorers and epicures — this extraordinary book unveils the mysterious universe of fruit, from the jungles of Borneo to the prized orchards of Florida’s fruit hunters to American supermarkets.

 

Gollner examines the fruits we eat and explains why we eat them—the scientific, economic, and aesthetic reasons; he traces the life of mass-produced fruits—how they are created, grown, and marketed; and he explores the underworld of fruits that are inaccessible, ignored, and even forbidden in the Western world.

 

An intrepid journalist and keen observer of nature—both human and botanical—Adam Leith Gollner has written a vivid tale of horticultural obsession.

 

Adam Leith Gollner has traveled around the globe to report on the fruit underworld. He’s written for The New York Times, Gourmet, The Globe and Mail, Maisonneuve and Good Magazine. The former editor of Vice Magazine, he is also a musician. This is his first book. He lives in Montreal.

 

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