Propitious Esculent
The Potato in World History
$38.30
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2008
Summary
Baked, Roast, Boiled, Mashed, Steamed, French-Fried… We’ve probably all tried one or other type, and some of us eat them every day. The potato is one of the most familiar and ubiquitous foods, and part of our sense of humble, even mundane normality. Couch Potato. Cheap as Chips. Mr Potato Head. But the story of the solanum tuberosum is darker - one of struggle, disease, dirt and survival.
Before domestication thousands of years ago, high up on the Andean antiplano, the high a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780434018369 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0434018368 |
| Author: | John Reader |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | William Heinemann Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2008 |
| Weight: | 437g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 153mm x 234mm |
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Praise for Cities:
A fascinating account of how cities grow and sometimes crumble… Reader’s magpie eye…picks out gems… Entertaining… Cities is, finally, a celebration of its subject’s refusal to be explained or controlled.
Cities is vastly entertaining, and Reader has a fine eye for the telling anecdote and statistic… Reading it is a bit like wandering with an erudite companion through a great city in which the past rubs shoulders with the present and surprises lurk around every corner. * Time *
It is probably the most enjoyable book ever written about the matter of a city… fascinating – Jan Morris * The Times *
John Reader
John Reader
John Reader is an author and photojournalist. He holds an Honorary Research Fellowship in the Department of Anthropology at UCL and is a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Royal Geographic Society.
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