{"product_id":"2026200016822-secondhand-oranges","title":"Oranges","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\n\nA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49309685186779,"sku":"2026200016822-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4fe3f9f1-49aa-425f-a7eb-4b6c13fb69a4.png?v=1789455424","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016822-secondhand-oranges","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}