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For Readers Of H Is For Hawk And The Frozen Thames, The Ghost Orchard Is Award-winning Author Helen Humphreys’ Fascinating Journey Into The Secret History Of An Iconic Food. Delving Deep Into The Storied Past Of The Apple In North America, Humphreys Explores The Intricate Link Between Agriculture, Settlement, And Human Relationships. With Her Signature Insight And Exquisite Prose, She Brings Light To Such Varied Topics As How The Apple First Came Across The Atlantic Ocean With A Relatively Unknown Quaker Woman Long Before The More Famed “johnny Appleseed”; How Bountiful Indigenous Orchards Were Targeted To Be Taken Over Or Eradicated By White Settlers And Their Armies; How The Once-17,000 Varietals Of Apple Cultivated Were Catalogued By Watercolour Artists From The United States’ Department Of Pomology; How Apples Wove Into The Life And Poetry Of Robert Frost; And How Humphreys’ Own Curiosity Was Piqued By The Winter Pear Pearmain, Believed To Be The World’s Best Tasting Apple, Which She Found Growing Beside An Abandoned Cottage Not Far From Her Home. In Telling This Hidden History, Humphreys Writes Movingly About The Experience Of Her Research, Something She Undertook As One Of He

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Author

Humphreys, Helen, 1961-

Publisher

Toronto, Ontario: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781443451512

Category

history

Subjects

Agriculture, Literary Fiction, Fiction