Book ID: 57742
Young, A.
The chocolate tree. A natural history of Cacao.1994. 51(15 coloured) photographs. 36 black & white photographs.14 line-figs. XV,200 p. gr8vo. Cloth.
Deals with cultural and natural history, archeology, botany,ecology.- Contents: Preface/ Acknowledgements/ Out of the Rain Forest: TheJourney of Chocolate Begins/ The Cultivation of Cacao Past and Present/Cacao and Agriculture in Costa Rica/ Excursions into the Natural Historyof Cacao and Cacao Plantations/ Nature in the Cacao: Mysteries ofPollination/ Back to the Rain Forest: A Bridge between Agriculture andConservation/ Appendix: Names of Plants and Animals Mentioned in theText.- Second hand copy, as new.