Author: Jeff + Claude AI
Genre: Food
Date: 23rd February 2026
Description: Journey from the misty highlands of Papua New Guinea to the sprawling plantations of the Caribbean in this sweeping exploration of the world's most deceptively ordinary fruit. Tracing the banana's path through Arab trade routes, colonial empires, and industrial refrigeration, this book reveals how a single curved berry reshaped economies, ecosystems, and dinner tables across the globe. Along the way, readers will discover the surprising botany behind ripening, the perils of monoculture farming, and the cutting-edge science working to secure the banana's future. Equal parts history, science, and cultural investigation, it's a fresh look at a fruit we thought we knew.