Picture this: There is a herb capable of producing a giant berry that dates back to Adam and Eve that feeds millions around the world.
Now imagine this: It became a commercial miracle, built entire nations only to destroy them later, ravished over 65,000 acres of tropical forest in Jamaica and Panama alone and killed thousands of people that got in its way of expansion and profits.
It reads like a thing of science fiction: clones, test tubes, genetic modification, and blue people. This is not the works of George Lucas; instead, through the exploration of the Banana and its history, Dan Koeppel takes us deep inside the roots of how it changed the world, at the expense of sacrificing its own existence.