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Pierre Laszlo

Citrus

A History

288 pages, 20 color plates  6 x 9  © 2007

Cloth $25.00

ISBN: 9780226470269   Published October 2007

Paper $17.00

ISBN: 9780226470283   Published October 2008

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Acknowledgments
Prologue: Letter to a Fellow Writer
 
One            Domestication of Exotic Species
1                Introduction, Including a Definition of Citrus Plants and Fruit
2                Transplantation to Europe
3                Acclimatization to the New World
4                Nurturing Citriculture
 
Two           Mining Value from Citrus
5                California Dreamin’
6                Making Lemonade out of Lemons
7                Drinking the Orange
8                Extracting the Essence from the Peel
 
Three         Symbolic Extractions
9                Symbolic Meanings of Citrus
10              Images of Citrus in Prose
11              Images of Citrus in Poetry
12              Fruit as Image
13              Preserving Nature—or Changing It?
14              Make It Scarce?
 
Epilogue: Answer from a Fellow Writer
Selected Notes
Index
Subjects


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