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Fruits of Eden
At the turn of the nineteenth century—when most food in America was bland and brown and few people appreciated the economic potential of then-exotic foods—David Fairchild convinced the U.S. Department of Agriculture to finance overseas explorations to find and bring back foreign cultivars. Fairchild traveled to remote corners of the globe, searching for fruits, vegetables, and grains that could find a new home in American fields and in the American diet. In Fruits of Eden, Amanda Harris vividly recounts the exploits of Fairchild and his small band of adventurers and botanists as they traversed distant lands—Algeria, Baghdad, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Java, and Zanzibar—to return with new...
The Food Explorer
The true adventures of David Fairchild, a turn-of-the-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes—and thousands more—to the American plate. “Fascinating.”—The New York Times Book Review • “Fast-paced adventure writing.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Richly descriptive.”—Kirkus • “A must-read for foodies.”—HelloGiggles In the nineteenth century, American meals were about subsistence, not enjoyment. But as a new century approached, appetites broadened, and David Fairchild, a young botanist with an insatiable lust to explore and experience the world, set out in search of foods that would enrich ...
The World was My Garden
Davis Fairchild describes his extensive world travels and his work introducing new plant species to the USA. In addition to sharing his legendary tropical botanical expertise, Fairchild provided graphic accounts of native cultures he was able to see before their modernization. He was an accomplished photographer and illustrated the book himself.
Exodus
Explore the Themes of God's Deliverance and Covenant Dive into one of the foundational texts of the Old Testament with Exodus, part of the Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries series. Paul Williamson offers a careful and clear treatment of this foundational text, with its overarching focus on the relationship between the Lord and Israel, Abraham's offspring and heirs to God's promises. Exodus is especially important to Christians because in the New Testament Christ fulfilled its great themes: he accomplished God's greatest act of deliverance, became the Passover lamb and sealed a new covenant with his blood. This commentary shows how the story and theology of Exodus continue to speak of God's ...
The World As Garden
The World as Garden is an anthology of the writings of David Fairchild, one of the most important figures in American agriculture and science in the first half of the 20th century, and influential in the early history of Miami. Fairchild was a plant explorer, and established and directed the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction of the USDA, which helped transform crop diversity, quality and yields, and to dramatically expand American agriculture. These writings, from books, articles, unpublished letters and manuscripts, are arranged to describe the chronology of events in his life, his love for plants and nature, and affection for family and friends. Strategically placed essays and bridging paragraphs help to integrate Fairchild's writings into the story of his life. The book is also illustrated with 100 black and white photographs, many published for the first time, and it ends with a comprehensive index.
Coexistence
This book is about tropical biology in action- how biologists grapple with the ecology and evolution of the great species diversity in tropical rainforests and coral reefs. Tropical rainforests are home to 50% of all the plant and animal species on earth, though they cover only about 2% of the planet. Coral reefs hold 25% of the world's marine diversity, though they represent only 0.1 % of the world's surface. The increase in species richness from the poles to the tropics has remained enigmatic to naturalists for more than 200 years. How have so many species evolved in the tropics? How can so many species coexist there? At a time when rainforests and coral reefs are shrinking, when the earth...
