Most of us can agree that bananas are a little bit funny. If I put one up to my ear and pretended like it was a telephone, smooshed one in my hand at the lunch table, or pretended to slip on a peel, you might let out a chuckle. But what if I told you the banana is one of the most powerful weapons to have ever existed on the planet? The banana has touched, infected, controlled, and destroyed a disturbingly high number of individual lives as well as national governments and economies throughout history, but not without the human hand holding it. 150 Years of Bananas and People is an illustrated interpretation of banana-human history with two parallel timelines - the story of those who grow them and those who consume them.
