Dow Baker and the Great Banana Fleet: The Story of the Yankee Skipper Who Befriended an Island and Introduced Bananas to America

by Charles Morrow Wilson

A biography of the nineteenth-century sea captain who introduced the banana to the United States by being the first to ship the fruit from Jamaica. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811705323
• ISBN13: 9780811705325
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7