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Oranges Paperback - 1975
by John McPhee
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- Title Oranges
- Author John McPhee
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication date 1975-01-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # ANAIS-0374512973
- ISBN 9780374512972 / 0374512973
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.5 in (20.57 x 13.72 x 1.27 cm)
- Size 20.8X13.9X2.6
- Reading level 1290
- Category Nature
- Library of Congress subjects Oranges
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 66020125
- Dewey Decimal Code 641.3
- Quantity available 1
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About this book
A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually found that he had in fact written a book. It contains sketches of orange growers, orange botanists, orange pickers, orange packers, early settlers on Florida's Indian River, the first orange barons, modern concentrate makers, and a fascinating profile of Ben Hill Griffin of Frostproof, Florida who may be the last of the individual orange barons. McPhee's astonishing book has an almost narrative progression, is immensely readable, and is frequently amusing. Louis XIV hung tapestries of oranges in the halls of Versailles, because oranges and orange trees were the symbols of his nature and his reign. This book, in a sense, is a tapestry of oranges, too—with elements in it that range from the great orangeries of European monarchs to a custom of people in the modern Caribbean who split oranges and clean floors with them, one half in each hand.
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First edition identification
Heinmann published a First UK Edition, First Printing in 1967, London. The edition is characterized by red cloth boards with gold lettering on the spine.
Farrar Straus & Giroux published a First US Edition hardcover in 1967, New York.
