Munoz Ryan, Pam, Ryan, Pam Muñoz:Pinta el viento (Paint the Wind): (Spanish language edition of Paint the Wind) (Spanish Edition)
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PRENTICE HALL, 08/11/06 12:00 AM. Paperback. Like New. Trade Paperback. Fine. Clean, tight and unmarked. May have school marking or sticker. Unused item. Multiple copies available., PRENTICE HALL, 08/11/06 12:00 AM, 5, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Very Good. 5.5 x 0.85 x 8.2 inches. Paperback. 1975. 176 pages. <br>A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceive d as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information th at he eventually found that he had in fact written a book. It con tains sketches of orange growers, orange botanists, orange picker s, orange packers, early settlers on Florida's Indian River, the first orange barons, modern concentrate makers, and a fascinating profile of Ben Hill Griffin of Frostproof, Florida who may be th e last of the individual orange barons. McPhee's astonishing book has an almost narrative progression, is immensely readable, and is frequently amusing. Louis XIV hung tapestries of oranges in th e halls of Versailles, because oranges and orange trees were the symbols of his nature and his reign. This book, in a sense, is a tapestry of oranges, too?with elements in it that range from the great orangeries of European monarchs to a custom of people in th e modern Caribbean who split oranges and clean floors with them, one half in each hand. Editorial Reviews Review Whil e many readers are familiar with John McPhee's masterful pieces o n a large scale (the geological history of North America, or the nature of Alaska), McPhee is equally remarkable when he considers the seemingly inconsequential. Oranges was conceived as a short magazine piece, but thanks to his unparalleled investigative skil ls, became a slim, fact-filled book. As McPhee chronicles orange farmers struggling with frost and horticulturists' new breeds of citrus, oranges come to seem a microcosm of man's relationship wi th nature. Like Flemish miniaturists who reveal the essence of humankind within the confines of a tiny frame, McPhee once again demonstrates that the smallest topic is replete with history, sig nificance, and consequence. Review Fascinating. A sterling exa mple of what a fresh point of view, a clear style, a sense of hum or and diligent investigation can do to reveal the inherent inter est in something as taken-for-granted as your morning orange juic e. ?Edmund Fuller, The Wall Street Journal It is a delicious boo k, in a word, and more absorbing than many a novel. ?Roderick Coo k, Harper's About the Author John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambrid ge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first boo k, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written over 30 books, including Orang es (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and S ilk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and Th e Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World . He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Review Fascinating. A ster ling example of what a fresh point of view, a clear style, a sens e of humor and diligent investigation can do to reveal the inhere nt interest in something as taken-for-granted as your morning ora nge juice. ?Edmund Fuller, The Wall Street Journal It is a delic ious book, in a word, and more absorbing than many a novel. ?Rode rick Cook, Harper's About the Author John McPhee was born in Pr inceton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his f irst book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giro ux, and in the years since, he has written over 30 books, includi ng Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007 ), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972 ) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for Natio nal Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the A ward in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Form er World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. About the Author Jo hn McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has writte n over 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Countr y (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of scienc e. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Ar ts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Priz e for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jers ey. Excerpt. ® Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Or anges By John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Copyright © 1975 John McPhee All right reserved. ISBN: 9780374512972 Oranges ONEO RANGES THE custom of drinking orange juice with breakfast is no t very widespread, taking the world as a whole, and it is thought by many peoples to be a distinctly American habit. But many Dane s drink it regularly with breakfast, and so do Hondurans, Filipin os, Jamaicans, and the wealthier citizens of Trinidad and Tobago. The day is started with orange juice in the Colombian Andes, and , to some extent, in Kuwait. Bolivians don't touch it at breakfas t time, but they drink it steadily for the rest of the day. The p lay lunch, or morning tea, that Australian children carry with th em to school is usually an orange, peeled spirally halfway down, with the peel replaced around the fruit. The child unwinds the pe el and holds the orange as if it were an ice-cream cone. People i n Nepal almost never peel oranges, preferring to eat them in cut quarters, the way American athletes do. The sour oranges of Afgha nistan customarily appearas seasoning agents on Afghan dinner tab les. Squeezed over Afghan food, they cut the grease. The Shamouti Orange, of Israel, is seedless and sweet, has a thick skin, and grows in Hadera, Gaza, Tiberias, Jericho, the Jordan Valley, and Jaffa; it is exported from Jaffa, and for that reason is known un iversally beyond Israel as the Jaffa Orange. The Jaffa Orange is the variety that British people consider superior to all others, possibly because Richard the Lionhearted spent the winter of 1191 -92 in the citrus groves of Jaffa. Citrus trees are spread across the North African coast from Alexandria to Tangier, the city who se name was given to tangerines. Oranges tend to become less tart the closer they are grown to the equator, and in Brazil there is one kind of orange that has virtually no acid in it at all. In t he principal towns of Trinidad and Tobago, oranges are sold on st reet corners. The vender cuts them in half and sprinkles salt on them. In Jamaica, people halve oranges, get down on their hands a nd knees, and clean floors with one half in each hand. Jamaican m echanics use oranges to clear away grease and oil. The blood oran ge of Spain, its flesh streaked with red, is prized throughout Eu rope. Blood oranges grow well in Florida, but they frighten Ameri can women. Spain has about thirty-five million orange trees, grow s six billion oranges a year, and exports more oranges than any o ther country, including the United States. In the Campania region of Italy, land is scarce; on a typical small patch, set on a ste ep slope, orange trees are interspersed witholive and walnut tree s, grapes are trained to cover trellises overhead, and as many as five different vegetables are grown on the ground below. The ove r-all effect is that a greengrocer's shop is springing out of the hillside. Italy produces more than four billion oranges a year, but most of its citrus industry is scattered in gardens of one or two acres. A Frenchman sits at the dinner table, and, as the fin ishing flourish of the meal, slowly and gently disrobes an orange . In France, peeling the fruit is not yet considered an inconveni ence. French preferences run to the blood oranges and the Thomson Navels of Spain, and to the thick-skinned, bland Maltaises, whic h the French import not from Malta but from Tunisia. France itsel f only grows about four hundred thousand oranges each year, almos t wholly in the Department of the Alpes Maritimes. Sometimes, Eur opeans eat oranges with knives and forks. On occasion, they serve a dessert orange that has previously been peeled with such extra ordinary care that strips of the peel arc outward like the petals of a flower from the separated and reassembled segments in the c enter. The Swiss sometimes serve oranges under a smothering of su gar and whipped cream; on a hot day in a Swiss garden, orange jui ce with ice is a luxurious drink. Norwegian children like to remo ve the top of an orange, make a little hole, push a lump of sugar into it, and then suck out the juice. English children make oran ge-peel teeth and wedge them over their gums on Halloween. Irish children take oranges to the movies, where they eat them while th ey watch the show, tossing thepeels at each other and at the peop le on the screen. In Reykjavik, Iceland, in greenhouses that are heated by volcanic springs, orange trees yearly bear fruit. In th e New York Botanical Garden, six mature orange trees are growing in the soil of the Bronx. Their trunks are six inches in diameter , and they bear well every year. The oranges are for viewing and are not supposed to be picked. When people walk past them, howeve r, they sometimes find them irresistible. The first known refer ence to oranges occurs in the second book of the Five Classics, w hich appeared in China around 500 B.C. and is generally regarded as having been edited by Confucius. The main course of the migrat ion of the fruit--from its origins near the South China Sea, down into the Malay Archipelago, then on four thousand miles of ocean current to the east coast of Africa, across the desert by carava n and into the Mediterranean basin, then over the Atlantic to the American continents--closely and sometimes exactly kept pace wit h the major journeys of civilization. There were no oranges in th e Western Hemisphere before Columbus himself introduced them. It was Pizarro who took them to Peru. The seeds the Spaniards carrie d came from trees that had entered Spain as a result of the rise of Islam. The development of orange botany owes something to Vasc o da Gama and even more to Alexander the Great; oranges had symbo lic importance in the paintings ofRenaissance masters; in other t imes, at least two overwhelming invasions of the Italian peninsul a were inspired by the visions of paradise that oranges engendere d in northern minds. Oranges were once the fruit of the gods, to whom they were the golden apples of the Hesperides, which were st olen by Hercules. Then, in successive declensions, oranges became the fruit of emperors and kings, of the upper prelacy, of the ar istocracy, and, by the eighteenth century, of the rich bourgeoisi e. Another hundred years went by before they came within reach of the middle classes, and not until early in this century did they at last become a fruit of the community.Just after the Second Wo rld War, three scientists working in central Florida surprised th emselves with a simple idea that resulted in the development of c ommercial orange-juice concentrate. A couple of dozen enormous fa ctories sprang out of the hammocks, and Florida, which can be cou nted on in most seasons to produce about a quarter of all the ora nges grown in the world, was soon putting most of them through th e process that results in small, trim cans, about two inches in d iameter and four inches high, containing orange juice that has be en boiled to high viscosity in a vacuum, separated into several c omponent parts, reassembled, flavored, and then frozen solid. Peo ple in the United States used to consume more fresh oranges than all other fresh fruits combined, but in less than twenty years th e per-capita consumption has gone down seventy-five per cent, as appearances of actual oranges in most of the UnitedStates have be come steadily less frequent. Fresh, whole, round, orange oranges are hardly extinct, of course, but they have seen better days sin ce they left the garden of the Hesperides.Fresh oranges have beco me, in a way, old-fashioned. The frozen product made from them is pure and sweet, with a laboratory-controlled balance between its acids and its sugars; its color and its flavor components are as uniform as science can make them, and a consumer opening the six -ounce can is confident that the drink he is about to reconstitut e will taste almost exactly like the juice that he took out of th e last can he bought. Fresh orange juice, on the other hand, is p robably less consistent in flavor than any other natural or ferme nted drink, with the possible exception of wine.The taste and aro ma of oranges differ by type, season, county, state, and country, and even as a result of the position of the individual orange in the framework of the tree on which it grew. Ground fruit--the or ange that one can reach and pick from the ground--is not as sweet as fruit that grows high on the tree. Outside fruit is sweeter t han inside fruit. Oranges grown on the south side of a tree are s weeter than oranges grown on the east or west sides, and oranges grown on the north side are the least sweet of the lot. The quant ity of juice in an orange, and even the amount of Vitamin C it co ntains, will follow the same pattern of variation. Beyond this, t here are differentiations of quality inside a single orange. Indi vidual segments vary from one another in their contentof acid and sugar. But that is cutting it pretty fine. Orange men, the ones who actually work in the groves, don't discriminate to that exten t. When they eat an orange, they snap out the long, thin blades o f their fruit knives and peel it down, halfway, from the blossom end, which is always sweeter and juicier than the stem, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975, 3, Abrams Discoveries, 1994. 1st English edition.. Paperback. Paperback, F. 176pp, illustrated in colour & b/w throughout, a nice fine copy. New. Slim guide to the paintings of Goya in a small Paperback format. Covers his entire career., Abrams Discoveries, 1994, 0, Abrams Discoveries, 1994. 1st English edition.. Paperback. Paperback, F. 176pp, illustrated in colour & b/w throughout, a nice fine copy. New. Small guide to the paintings of Goya in a small Paperback format. Covers his entire career., Abrams Discoveries, 1994, 0, Scholastic en español. Used - Like New. Like New condition. Spanish edition. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects., Scholastic en español, 5<
