The Fruit Hunters lecture
Part writer, filmmaker, musician, photographer and best-selling author, Adam Leith Gollner is a true latter-day Renaissance man – and he’s coming to Ithaca. Gollner will deliver the second annual Elizabeth E. Rowley lecture, “The Fruit Hunters” in the Statler Hall auditorium on Wednesday, September 30, at 7:30 p.m. The presentation is part of Cornell Plantations’ annual free fall lecture series. A book sale and signing will follow the lecture.
Gollner’s lecture will focus on the fascinating subject of his recent book, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Obsession, Commerce and Adventure. A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and winner of the McAuslan First Book Award, The Fruit Hunters was described in a Sunday Times Book Review by author Mary Roach as “lustrous and exhilarating… jaw dropping… Adam Leith Gollner possesses a talent as rare and exotic as a coconut pearl…” The complete Times review, and more information about Gollner, can be found on his website, www.adamgollner.com
For his lecture at Cornell, Gollner will share stories about the otherworldly fruits he encountered while traveling to the Amazon, Borneo, the Seychelles and tropical West Africa. He will also discuss the idea of biophilia, the love of life that is behind fruit hunters’ obsessive quests. Attendees can expect to come away with a greater understanding of the intense relationships that bind different species of plants and humans, as well as a sense of the limitlessness and fragility of the biodiversity surrounding us.
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