{"product_id":"9781771644075","title":"Taming Fruit","description":"Author: Bernd Brunner\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781771644075\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Greystone Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 07 Feb 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 304\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Michael Pollan's\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e The Botany of Desire \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand Mark Kurlansky's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSalt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story of orchards is a human story. It is also a story of how humans have bent and shaped nature to our tastes and desires for millennia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTaming Frui\u003c\/i\u003et, award-winning writer Bernd Brunner interweaves science, literature, art, history, and geography to tell the complete and fascinating story of orchards and humans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first orchards may have been oases dotted with date trees, where desert nomads stopped to rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Amazon, Indigenous tribes maintained beautiful mosaic gardens centuries before colonisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModern fruit cultivation developed over thousands of years in the West and the East. As populations expanded, fruit trees sprang from the lush gardens of the wealthy and monasteries to fields and roadsides, changing landscapes as they fed the hungry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen settlers colonised North America, they brought apple orchards and orange groves. Today, rewilding efforts break down fences, encouraging nature to play an active role.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut orchards are not only for growing fruit; they are also places of worship and creativity, inspiring poems, music, and art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis sweeping account of orchards explores an overlooked focal point of our relationship to nature. It also offers gorgeous illustrations of orchards past and present, each one more beautiful than the last.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;Beautiful...Brunner is an astute guide to the fascinating relationships between orchards and human culture.\u0026amp;#x27; - David George Haskell, author of Pulitzer finalist, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Forest Unseen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46852843602078,"sku":"ADS-9781771644075","price":49.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781771644075.jpg?v=1779063516","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781771644075","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}