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Adam Leith Gollner

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Adam Leith Gollner is the author of The Book of Immortality and The Fruit Hunters.

He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, The Guardian, the Globe and Mail, Saveur, Good, and Lucky Peach, among others.

He used to be Editor of Vice Magazine and also played in a number of bands. He lives in Montreal.

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Average rating: 3.78 · 1,348 ratings · 239 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Obsession, Commerce, and Adventure 3.82 avg rating — 1,142 ratings — published 2008 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever 3.27 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 2013 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wildness: An Ode to Newfoundland and Labrador by Jeremy Charles, Adam Leith Gollner (Contributor), Zita Cobb (Contributor) 4.57 avg rating — 30 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Illustrated Catalog of American Fruits & Nuts: The U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection by Jacqueline Landy (Contributor), John McPhee, Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Working in the Bathtub: Conversations with the Immortal Dany Laferrière it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession by Adam Leith Gollner, Stephen Hoye (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The playwright Edward Albee has characterized [the suddenness of the appearance of fruits and flowers in evolutionary history] as 'that heartbreaking second when it all got together: the sugars and the acids and the ultraviolets, and the next thing you knew there were tangerines and string quartets.”
― Adam Leith Gollner, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession

tags: evolution, food, fruit, page-25

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“As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, we've become so removed from reality that we're starting to prefer artificiality.”
― Adam Leith Gollner, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession

tags: fruit, page-196, simulacra

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“To experience biophilia is to love a diversity that, as limitless as it is fragile, both haunts us and fills us with hope. ”
― Adam Leith Gollner, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession

tags: biophilia, food, fruit, page-15

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