How the Shy Fruit Shaped Our World. Uncovering the history of the coconut, with stories of exploration and wartime exploits, artistic expression, religious piety, royal christenings, shipwrecks, survival, scientific discovery and the subversive printing of bank notes. Today, coconut products line th...

How the Shy Fruit Shaped Our World. Uncovering the history of the coconut, with stories of exploration and wartime exploits, artistic expression, religious piety, royal christenings, shipwrecks, survival, scientific discovery and the subversive printing of bank notes. Today, coconut products line the shelves of the world's supermarkets, health food shops and retailers of beauty products, dominates the new wave of cookbooks, and has become the trendy alternative to cow's milk in coffee shops. This is the remarkable history of the most widely used plant nature has conceived.