A captivating cultural and scientific history of orchards, for readers of Michael Pollan\'s The Botany of Desire and Mark Kurlansky\'s Salt.
In Taming Fruit, award-winning writer Bernd Brunner interweaves evocative illustrations with masterful prose to show that the story of Orchards is a story of how we Have shaped nature to our desires for millennia.
As Brunner tells it, the first Orchards may Have been oases.
Throughout history, Orchards Have nourished both body and soul: they are sites for worship and rest, inspiration for artists and writers, and places for people to gather.
A perfect gift for gardeners and nature lovers. --Brian Fagan, author of The Little Ice Age and The Intimate Bond A captivating cultural and scientific history of orchards, for readers of Michael Pollan\'s The Botany of Desire and Mark Kurlansky\'s Salt.
Anyone who is even a tentative gardener will cherish this lovely book. --David George Haskell, author of The Forest UnseenAn enchanting journey through the world of Orchards and botanical curiosities.
George, author of The Journeys of TreesA beautiful exploration of the life-giving bonds between trees, fruits, and people. --Zach St.
Taming Fruit shares paintings, photographs, and illustrations alongside Brunner\'s enchanting descriptions and research, offering a multifaceted---and long-awaited--portrait of the orchard.
Praise for Taming Fruit: Fruit was there at the beginning of the human story, Bernd Brunner argues in this crisply written and lushly illustrated book.
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.
But Orchards don\'t just produce fruit; they also inspire great artists.
Modern fruit cultivation developed over thousands of years in the East and the West.
In the Amazon, Indigenous people maintained mosaic gardens centuries before colonization.
In Taming Fruit, award-winning writer Bernd Brunner interweaves evocative illustrations with masterful prose to show that the story of Orchards is a story of how we Have shaped nature to our desires for millennia.
As Brunner tells it, the first Orchards may Have been oases dotted with date trees, where desert nomads stopped to rest.
Throughout history, Orchards Have nourished both body and soul: they are sites for worship and rest, inspiration for artists and writers, and places for people to gather.
A perfect gift for gardeners and nature lovers.
A captivating cultural and scientific history of orchards, for readers of Michael Pollan\'s The Botany of Desire and Mark Kurlansky\'s Salt
