Oranges
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What begins as a deceptively simple inquiry into a single piece of fruit becomes one of the most surprisingly captivating works of narrative nonfiction ever written. In Oranges, John McPhee chronicles the complete world of the orange — from the sun-drenched groves of Florida and California to the boardrooms of the juice industry — illuminating the deep economic, agricultural, and cultural forces that have shaped this ubiquitous fruit's journey from ancient Southeast Asia to the modern American breakfast table. A masterwork of the immersive, detail-rich style that would come to define McPhee's legendary career, Oranges illustrates his extraordinary ability to transform the seemingly mundane into the profoundly fascinating. With meticulous reporting and a prose style that is both precise and deeply pleasurable, he argues, implicitly, that no subject is too small for serious, rigorous attention. Readers who pick up this slim volume expecting a novelty will put it down with a transformed sense of the world quietly humming with complexity all around them — one orange at a time.
Author: John Mcphee
Format: Paperback
Published: 1967, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Genre: Natural history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What begins as a deceptively simple inquiry into a single piece of fruit becomes one of the most surprisingly captivating works of narrative nonfiction ever written. In Oranges, John McPhee chronicles the complete world of the orange — from the sun-drenched groves of Florida and California to the boardrooms of the juice industry — illuminating the deep economic, agricultural, and cultural forces that have shaped this ubiquitous fruit's journey from ancient Southeast Asia to the modern American breakfast table. A masterwork of the immersive, detail-rich style that would come to define McPhee's legendary career, Oranges illustrates his extraordinary ability to transform the seemingly mundane into the profoundly fascinating. With meticulous reporting and a prose style that is both precise and deeply pleasurable, he argues, implicitly, that no subject is too small for serious, rigorous attention. Readers who pick up this slim volume expecting a novelty will put it down with a transformed sense of the world quietly humming with complexity all around them — one orange at a time.