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Cargoes and Harvests
Cargoes and Harvests, famed naturalist Donald Culross Peattie’s first book, eloquently explores agriculture and trade within America’s past using thoughtful language that is well ahead of its time. Originally published in 1926, Peattie takes readers on a compelling adventure through the socioeconomic histories of staples such as tea, coffee, cocoa, potatoes and tobacco. Starting with the seeds and roots of the American landscape, Cargoes and Harvests illustrates where we’ve been and how far we’ve come. By considering the relationship between a nation and its goods, Peattie unearths countless reflective implications that still resonate within the field of American agriculture today.
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Cargoes and Harvests
Cargoes and Harvests, famed naturalist Donald Culross Peattie’s first book, eloquently explores agriculture and trade within America’s past using thoughtful language that is well ahead of its time. Originally published in 1926, Peattie takes readers on a compelling adventure through the socioeconomic histories of staples such as tea, coffee, cocoa, potatoes and tobacco. Starting with the seeds and roots of the American landscape, Cargoes and Harvests illustrates where we’ve been and how far we’ve come. By considering the relationship between a nation and its goods, Peattie unearths countless reflective implications that still resonate within the field of American agriculture today.
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Cargoes and Harvests

Cargoes and Harvests

by Donald Culross Peattie
Cargoes and Harvests

Cargoes and Harvests

by Donald Culross Peattie

Overview

Cargoes and Harvests, famed naturalist Donald Culross Peattie’s first book, eloquently explores agriculture and trade within America’s past using thoughtful language that is well ahead of its time. Originally published in 1926, Peattie takes readers on a compelling adventure through the socioeconomic histories of staples such as tea, coffee, cocoa, potatoes and tobacco. Starting with the seeds and roots of the American landscape, Cargoes and Harvests illustrates where we’ve been and how far we’ve come. By considering the relationship between a nation and its goods, Peattie unearths countless reflective implications that still resonate within the field of American agriculture today.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781595341600
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Publication date: 10/10/2013
Pages: 324
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Donald Culross Peattie (1898–1964) was one of the most influential American nature writers of the 20th century. Peattie was born in Chicago and grew up in Smoky Mountains in North Carolina, which sparked his interest in the immense wonders of nature. He studied at the Universityof Chicago and Harvard University. After working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, he decided to pursue a career as a writer. In 1925 he became a nature columnist for the Washington Star Newspaper and subsequently went on to pen more than twenty fiction and nonfiction books in the next five decades. Widely acclaimed and popular in his age, his legacy has been attributed as inspiring a modern age of nature writing.

Table of Contents

Chapter I Plant Power 1

Chapter II The Spices of Ind 14

Chapter III Quinine-The Coming of a Savior 33

Chapter IV The Age of Rubber 50

Chapter V The Five O'Clock Cup 80

Chapter VI The Vanishing Vegetable Dyes 110

Chapter VII Camphor-The Strategic Crop 133

Chapter VIII The Potato-The Poor Man's Friend 151

Chapter IX Breadfruit and a Mutiny 172

Chapter X The Poppy-Blessing and Curse 193

Chapter XI Tobacco-The Companionable Weed 215

Chapter XII The Reign of Cotton 239

Chapter XIII The Tree of the Leper 258

Chapter XIV Our Inherited Crops 272

Chapter XV Must We Starve? 290

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