Taming Fruit

How Orchards Have Transformed the Land, Offered Sanctuary, and Inspired Creativity

Taming Fruit
Bernd Brunner, Lori Lantz
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Hardback
h222 x 165mm - 304pg
4 Nov 2021 CAN
International import eta 7-19 days
9781771644075
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"Beautiful . . . Brunner is an astute guide to the fascinating relationships between orchards and human culture. "--David George Haskell, author of Pulitzer finalist, The Forest Unseen. For readers of Michael Pollan' s The Botany of Desire and Mark Kurlansky' s Salt. The 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. In Taming Fruit, award-winning writer Bernd Brunner interweaves science, literature, art, history, and geography to tell the complete and fascinating story of orchards and humans. The first orchards may have been oases dotted with date trees, where desert nomads stopped to rest. In the Amazon, Indigenous tribes maintained beautiful mosaic gardens centuries before colonization. Modern 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. When settlers colonized North America, they brought apple orchards and orange groves. Today, rewilding efforts break down fences, encouraging nature to play an active role. But orchards are not only for growing fruit; they are also places of worship and creativity, inspiring poems, music, and art. This 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.
"An enchanting journey through the world of orchards and botanical curiosities. We learn, among other things, about medieval orchards, picking cherries and apples, pomegranates and quinces . . . sheep and orchard undergrowth. Beautifully illustrated and written with infectious and cultured enthusiasm, anyone who is even a tentative gardener will cherish this lovely book. " -Brian Fagan, author of The Little Ice Age and The Intimate Bond "An exquisitely beautiful and fascinating book. "-Caroline Eden, award-winning travel and food writer, author of Red Sands"Fruit was there at the beginning of the human story, Bernd Brunner argues in this crisply written and lushly illustrated book, and it' s been with us ever since-in birth and death, peace and war, art and myth, science and religion. Taming Fruit left me with the lingering urge to visit the grocery store and gaze at all of the fruits, stranger and more wonderful than I' d ever noticed. " -Zach St. George, author of The Journeys of Trees"Taming Fruit is packed full of fascinating historical, botanical, and cultural information. The gorgeous images are transporting. Reading the book is like visiting the most enchanted orchards around the world. A true delight!"-Gina Rae La Cerva, author of Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food"This rich combination of glorious illustrations with cultural history, botany, anthropology and personal anecdote will enthral and delight anyone curious about the origins of orchards and the fruit they bear. "-Helena Attlee, author of The Land Where Lemons Grow and Lev' s Violin"From American cider orchards to Mediterranean citrus groves, this beautifully illustrated book is an enticing insight into the world of fruit trees. Brunner' s eloquent and engaging account reminds us that the magic of the orchard extends far beyond its fruit. "-Leif Bersweden, author of The Orchid Hunter: A Young Botanist' s Search for HappinessA beautifully illustrated journey through different lands and time, Bernd Brunner' s TAMING FRUIT enlightens us on the deep and winding history of how humans have used fruits, and capitalized upon their sweetness and delight for our palates!"-Nezka Pfeifer, Museum Curator, Stephen and Sachs Museum, Missouri Botanical Garden"Taming Fruit' s fascinating tales, paired with gorgeous historical art, are potent lessons in cultivation that we can imitate today- for sustainability, freshness, and the joy of eating one' s own peach or olive. "-Erica Gies, environmental journalist"Amidst all the doom and gloom about the destruction of nature, a beam of light: Bernd Brunner' s fantastic book opens our eyes for the orchard as a way of life in which nature and culture co-exist. I' m now dreaming of the world as one gigantic orchard, teeming with life. " -Christian Schwagerl, journalist biologist and author of The Anthropocene"A poetic insight into the deep history of the fruits of our earth, how we have shaped them, and how they have shaped us. "-Andri Snaer Magnason, author of Time and Water
Bernd Brunner is the author of several books including Birdmania and Winterlust, and his writings have appeared in publications around the world including Lapham' s Quarterly, theParis Review, Quartz, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Wall Street Journal. He divides his time between Istanbul and Berlin.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781771644075
Published: 4 Nov 2021
Published In: Canada
Imprint: Greystone Books Canada
Publisher: Greystone Books (Canada)
Format: Hardback
Height: 222mm
Width: 165mm
Pages: 304

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