Fruits of Eden

At the turn of the nineteenth century David Fairchild convinced the US Department of Agriculture to finance overseas explorations to find and bring back foreign cultivars. 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 and exciting flavors.