[PDF.03dw] Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

[PDF.ti97] Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

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 | #1381269 in Books |  2013-07-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.10 x.87 x5.10l,.97 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Pretty interesting history of the pumpkin.|By S. Ring|I guess this was about what I expected. The trouble is, it's a short book that is still twice as long as it needs to be. And half of the book is footnotes. It seemed to run over the same ground quite a bit (e.g.: stressing, through the years, the pumpkin's popular connection to America's agrarian past) and I found myself gla| |"After smashing our illusions about the Pilgrims, Ott continues her pumpkin iconoclasm. . . . The pumpkin as symbol comes full circle."―Nina C. Ayoub, The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 2012|"Cindy Ott digs deeply and creatively in furrowing a

Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most people around the world eat pumpkin throughout the year, North Americans reserve it for holiday pies and other desserts that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. They decorate their houses with pumpkins every autumn and welcome Halloween trick-or-treaters with elaborately carved jack-o'-lanterns. Towns hold annual pumpkin festivals featuring giant...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)   |  Cindy Ott. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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