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The year is 1922.Greg Edmondson, a World War 1 veteran and medical student at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, has set off on a trip in his new motor car to visit his Aunt Gossamer in Vicksburg, Mississippi.Shortly before he arrives at Aunt Gossie's, Greg has car trouble, and seeks help on a nearby farm, whose big cash crop is sweet potatoes. He meets Samantha, a beautiful girl with a sweet disposition.This is the heartwarming story of a budding...
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Did you know French fries come from potatoes? Thirty-five-year veteran photojournalist Kathy Coatney (specializing in agriculture) introduces second and third-graders to the world of potatoes or spuds as Farmer Terry calls them. Children see through photographs and easy-to-read text how potatoes are grown from planting to processing. The From the Farm to the Table series is designed for second and third grade readers, each book highlighting second...
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In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people. Over the next five years, the blight attacked again and again. These years are known today as the Great Irish Famine, a time when one million people died from starvation and disease and two million more fled their homeland. Black Potatoes is the compelling story of...
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These Potatoes Look Like Humans offers a unique understanding of the intersection between land, labour, dispossession and violence experienced by Black South Africans from the apartheid period to the present. In this ground-breaking book, Mbuso Nkosi criticises the historical framing of this debate within narrow materialist and legalistic arguments. His assertion is that, for most Black South Africans, the meaning of land cannot be separated from...
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