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Promoted as a beneficial and healthy food, apples are grown in all the temperate regions of the world. From the modern Eve to the 17th century Api, there are now more than 7,000 known varieties of the apple. The Amazing Apple is a highly readable book -about apples. A feast of information offering the reader enlightenment, amusement and advice. Covering a very wide range of topics: • Plays, poems, proverbs, fables • Traditions, mythology • Social and botanical history • Health and Heritage • Recipes, old and new • Orchard life, Nelson, New Zealand • Pioneer orchardists

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E.Doreen Blundell (née Tait) grew up with her family on an apple orchard in Tasman. Nelson, one of New Zealand’s prolific fruit-growing districts. She attended Mapua Primary School and Motueka District High School. Doreen has lived in Auckland since 1970 and has three adult children. She was treasurer and later president of the now defunct Self-Publishers Association of NZ. She self-published her first book, The Amazing Apple. A history of apples, in 2008. The second edition was published in June 2008. Reviews and Views Growing up on an orchard surrounded by apples was all the inspiration Doreen Blundell needed to get writing. Nelson Mail The Amazing Apple is nicely written and enjoyable. You will probably look at this publication more than once. The Motueka Guardian . . . this is a most worthwhile and interesting book. It’s quite quirky in its content and easy to assimilate. Doreen Blundell is an experienced writer and her prose is always clear and lively. The Orchardist Anyone who is amazed by apples will love this book. Those of you who just like apples may enjoy it too. Weekender/Gisborne Beacon This is an amazing compendium of all you ever wanted to know about apples but were too busy munching them to ask. The Bay Chronicle, Kerikeri

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