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Nuts from Forest, Orchard, and Field
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Nuts from Forest, Orchard, and Field
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| Notes: Dodd, Mead & Company, Published 1974. Hardcover, 96 pp.; 24 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs. In very good condition, no dust jacket. Orange cloth boards, black lettering to front cover and spine. Mild shelf wear, with light bumping to board edges and corners. Binding tight. Text clean and unmarked; rear endpapers heavily browned, with a rectangular offset stain from a laid-in item. Describes the history, cultivation, harvest, and uses of a range of nuts, from acorns and chestnuts to pistachios, macadamias, and filberts, illustrated throughout with photographs. Gray Johnson Poole was a magazine writer who, with her husband Lynn Poole, co-authored more than twenty-five science books for young readers. Lynn Poole created and hosted The Johns Hopkins Science Review (1948 to 1955), the first nationwide educational science program on American television, and served as the university's first director of public relations. Contents: Acorns; Wild and Cultivated; Brazil Nut; Lychee; Pistachio; Almond; Macadamia; Walnuts; Pecans; Chestnuts; Filbert (Hazelnut); Coconut; Cashew; Peanut; Suggested Reading; Index. | |||||||||||||||
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