Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber by Stephen Yafa
	List Price:   $15.00 Unit Price:   $12.00 You Save:   $3.00 (20%) ISBN-10:   0143037226 ISBN-13:   9780143037224 Publisher:   Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated Category:   Agriculture Pub. Date:   June 2006 Pages:   416 Format:   Paperback Ages:   18 and Up
Description/Notes
In the tradition of Mark Kurlansky? Codand Salt, this endlessly revealing book reminds us that the fiber we think of as ordinary is the world? most powerful cash crop, and that it has shaped the destiny of nations. Ranging from its domestication 5,500 years ago to its influence in creating Calvin Klein? empire and the Gap, Stephen Yafa? Cotton gives us an intimate look at the plant that fooled Columbus into thinking he? reached India, that helped start the Industrial Revolution as well as the American Civil War, and that made at least one bug?he boll weevil?orld famous. A sweeping chronicle of ingenuity, greed, conflict, and opportunism, Cottonoffers ? barrage of fascinating information?(Los Angeles Times).