The Light Between Apple Trees by Priyanka Kumar ISBN 9781642833645, 1642833649 instant download

The Light Between Apple Trees by Priyanka Kumar ISBN 9781642833645, 1642833649 instant download

"A deeply meditative book in the vein of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass."
—Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus
As a child in the foothills of the Himalayas, Priyanka Kumar was entranced by forest-like orchards of diverse and luscious fruit—especially apples. These biodiverse orchards seemed worlds away from the cardboard apples that lined supermarket shelves in the United States. Yet on a small patch of woods near her home in Santa Fe, Kumar discovered a wild apple tree—and the seeds of an odyssey were planted. Could the taste of a feral apple offer a doorway to the wild? In The Light Between Apple Trees, Kumar takes us on a dazzling and transformative journey to rediscover apples, unearthing a rich and complex history while illuminating how we can reimagine our relationship with nature.
Apples are popular, but in our everyday lives we rarely encounter more than a handful of varieties: of the...