I might go check this out. It sounds interesting. Many weird obscure fruit from around the globe, plus how fruit comes to us here.
Below is from the Powell's site:
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The Fruit Hunters Signed
The Fruit Hunters Signed
by Adam Leith Gollner

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The Fruit Hunters

Journalist Adam Leith Gollner's "rollicking" (Publishers Weekly) The Fruit Hunters (Scribner) takes readers on a fascinating journey through the world of fruit — from the jungles of Borneo to American supermarkets — in a broadly appealing and vividly written tale of horticultural obsession.

Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Delicious, lethal, hallucinogenic and medicinal, fruits have led nations to war, fueled dictatorships and lured people into new worlds. An expedition through the fascinating world of fruit, The Fruit Hunters is the engrossing story of some of Earth's most desired foods.

In lustrous prose, Adam Leith Gollner draws readers into a Willy Wonka-like world with mangoes that taste like piña coladas, orange cloudberries, peanut butter fruits and the miracle fruit that turns everything sour to sweet, making lemons taste like lemonade. Peopled with a cast of characters as varied and bizarre as the fruit — smugglers, inventors, explorers and epicures — this extraordinary book unveils the mysterious universe of fruit, from the jungles of Borneo to the prized orchards of Florida's fruit hunters to American supermarkets.

Gollner examines the fruits we eat and explains why we eat them (the scientific, economic and aesthetic reasons); traces the life of mass-produced fruits (how they are created, grown and marketed) and explores the underworld of fruits that are inaccessible, ignored and even forbidden in the Western world.

An intrepid journalist and keen observer of nature — both human and botanical — Adam Leith Gollner has written a vivid tale of horticultural obsession.
Review:
"Journalist Gollner's debut is a rollicking account of the world of fruit and fruit fanatics. He's traveled to many countries in search of exotic fruits, and he describes in sensuous detail some of the hundreds of varieties he's sampled, among them peanut butter fruit, blackberry-jam fruit and coco-de-mer — a suggestively shaped coconut known as the 'lady fruit' that grows only in the Seychelles. Equally intriguing are some of the characters he has encountered — a botanist in Borneo who spends his life studying malodorous durians; fruitarians who believe that a fruit diet promotes transcendental experiences; fruitleggers who bypass import laws; and fruit inventors such as the fabricator of the Grapple — which looks like an apple and tastes like a grape. The FDA and the often dubious activities of the international fruit trade, multinational corporations like Chiquita, come in for scrutiny, as does New York City's largest wholesale produce market, in a chapter with more information than one may want on biochemical growth inhibitors, hormone-based retardants, dyes, waxes and corrupt USDA inspectors. Gollner's passion for fruit is infectious, and his fascinating book is a testament to the fact that there is much more to the world of fruit than the bland varieties on our supermarket shelves." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
Review:
"Gollner's narrative tends to ramble, but it's quite pleasant....A fresh, juicy and highly satisfying treat." Kirkus Reviews