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Apples & the Art of Detection : Tracking Down, Identifying & Preserving Rare Apples by John Bunker

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Oversize trade paperback format.  HIGHLY RECOMMENDED -- a real Maine classic!  Gorgeously produced and packed with useful information and delightful anecdotes pulled from episodes in Bunker's hunt for apple varieties in Maine.  Tons of color illustration!  We've added some examples below - this is a wonderful book, folks!!!

Written and illustrated by John Bunker.

John Bunker’s latest literary effort is hot off the press.  The “art of detection” is what Sherlock Holmes called his profession.  In John’s new book he channels his inner Sherlock as he searches through Maine’s past and present tracking down historic, unusual and occasionally elusive apple varieties and their stories.

Part travelogue, part mystery and part how-to manual this book will take you for a ride across Maine and leave you excited to start searching for and identifying the old apple trees in your own neighborhood.   Illustrated with hundreds of photos, as well as John’s signature cartoons and paintings of all the iconic Maine apples.  407 pages in full color.