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Basjoofriend
07-23-2008, 04:18 PM
Hi banana friends,

now is my book "Bananen in Mitteleuropa" ready and is published and to buy in book shops and online shops like amazon.de, libri.de and others. :nanadrink::waving: in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. See e. g. Libri.de - Joachim Jäck: Bananen in Mitteleuropa (http://www.libri.de/shop/action/productDetails/7523129/joachim_jaeck_bananen_in_mitteleuropa_3837054551.html) and Amazon.de: Bananen in Mitteleuropa: Anleitung zum erfolgreichen Bananenanbau: Joachim Jäck: Bücher (http://www.amazon.de/Bananen-Mitteleuropa-Anleitung-erfolgreichen-Bananenanbau/dp/3837054551/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216847818&sr=8-2)

The ISBN-Nr. is 978-3-8370-5455-2 It has 152 pages and 229 pics, 77 species and cultivars are described, 11 more than "Bananas You Can Grow". I wrote the book "Bananen in Mitteleuropa", because many German banana enhusiasts don't understand, read and speak English, they cannot read the book "Bananas You Can Grow"!

Who here does understand and read German, should buy my book, it's a must for every German speaking banana and exotic plant lover! Much thanks for your support and help for my work at my book, and much thanks for many pics and infos from you for my book. I will not forget you!

With the best
Joachim

Tropicallvr
07-23-2008, 04:41 PM
That's awesome, congrats on getting it published. I bet there are quite a few english speaking people would like to order it even though it's in German. I'd like to get one myself, but the shipping isn't relyable here.

Bananachris
07-23-2008, 04:59 PM
Dear Joachim,
many thanks for this info. Next time when I am in Berlin/Stuttgart I will buy the book.
I know so many ripening instalations in Germany, the banana terminal in the port of Hamburg. But I never thought in cultivation bananas in Germany in the garden. Nice idea. We should start promoting this, because people go to the Stuttgarter Wilhelma to see bananas.
Viele Grüße aus Buenos Aires! :)

griphuz
07-24-2008, 05:42 AM
Hello Joachim,
I also have the book 'Bananas you can grow' but find it not so informative about the 'hardy' species actually. It's generally an overview of all bananas and for that it is a nice book. Is your book more specialised for German regions (I'm from the Netherlands) and are generally the more cold tolerant species the main topic?
I think my German is good enough, at least, I hope so :)
Kind regards,
Remko.

stumpy4700
07-24-2008, 07:16 AM
Congratulations on getting it published.

:woohoonaner::goteam::woohoonaner:

Das ist sehr gut!!!!!!!!!

Did I get that right. Its been years since I took German in college.

Basjoofriend
07-24-2008, 07:25 AM
Danke. Ja, du hast richtig deutsch geschrieben!

Gruß
Joachim

Basjoofriend
07-24-2008, 07:38 AM
@griphuz - Yes, you can use my book for the Netherlands. The Netherlands has even milder climate, so that you can try more species and cultivars. Yes, the book "Bananas You Can Grow" is not as informative as my book about hardy bananas. You can read even about methods of winter protection for bananas in my book. :coldbanana: You can order my book at Amazon.de: Günstige Preise bei Elektronik & Foto, DVD, Musik, Bücher, Games, Spielwaren & mehr (http://www.amazon.de)

Best wishes
Joachim

Bananaman88
07-24-2008, 11:40 AM
Any thoughts of doing an English translation if this one sells well?

Basjoofriend
07-24-2008, 04:16 PM
This is possible. I plan two new banana books, one in 3 languages (German, Portuguese and English, "Bananen in Brasilien", "Bananas no Brasil" and "Bananas in Brazil") and one banana lexikon. It's sure, that I will write further books in the future.

Best wishes
Joachim

51st state
07-24-2008, 04:34 PM
Hi Joachim
just ordered my copy via Amazon :woohoonaner:

looking forward to it. I might have to get my mother to translate some of it as mein deutsch ist kein gut.
take care
Kev

51st state
08-02-2008, 05:08 AM
my copy arrived from amazon today. this is quite simply the best book on bananas I have seen.
excellent book packed with loads of great photos. great for ID reference.

When can we have the english language version then, Joachim?

Basjoofriend
08-02-2008, 01:54 PM
Hi,

yes, one English version is planned, also the Portuguese version for Brazil. I will begin in October the three versions (German, English, Portuguese) project.

The lectors for the German version is Dombo and Chris Stührk, the for the English version probably anyone member from this forum and the for the Brazilian my guest daughter Leda and Helton from Frutas Raras.

But the 1st edition of my banana book is also better than Bananas You Can Grow, I believe that.

I believe, that my both foreign languages English and Portuguese will increase, so that I will understand English and Portuguese more better. This might be one chance for me to get the Brazilian passport.

Best wishes
Basjoofriend

griphuz
08-07-2008, 04:18 AM
Hi Joachim,
I've received your book.
It looks great, and from the first impression it's indeed very usefull!
I'll be reading it for the next couple of weeks I guess, thanks for writing it and letting us know. Good work!
Kind regards,
Remko.

MediaHound
08-07-2008, 09:12 AM
Congratulations Joachim! Your life project is manifesting more and more.
Hopefully it brings you to where you want to be.
I eagerly await the chance to order a copy, is there a preorder for the English version available?

Thread stuck, by the way!

bikoro child
08-08-2008, 09:05 AM
Vielen danken Joachim für dieses Buch...Wird es möglich vielleicht eine französiche version zu bekommen?Hier in Frankreich haben wir überhaupt kein buch über bananen...ich wird allerdings es kaufen...

Basjoofriend
08-08-2008, 06:02 PM
Hi,

Mediahound, one English version is planned, yes. I will begin it soon. My friend Chris even said to me, begin it as soon as possible. Some of you might be check as lectors my English version. But, sorry, I cannot French. But I also will write one Portuguese version for Brazil. The book will exist in one German and one English version, later one Portuguese version will be added.

To be more exact, I do speak German, English, more and more Portugese (I'm learning more and more, my guest daughter Leda here in Hamburg and her parents and friends in Lucianópolis are helping my wife and me) and a bit Spanish. I was orginally planning to emigrate to Tenerife, but the prices of the properties on Tenerife were rising too quickly and too strongly, so that I couldn't manage to buy one house with a big yard or banana plantation on Tenerife, currently it cost's 1,000,000 euros, more or fewer. Then one friend, one biologist, learn't to know one Peruvian girl and married her. My wife and I learnt Spanish, orginally for Tenerife, then for Peru. The properties in Peru are more cheaper, but earthquakes and risk of volcanic eruptions. And the Peruvian wife was not honest to her German-Chinese husband and us, she cheaten him with other men and didn't provide us in emigration to Peru anymore. So that we canceled our travel to Peru, and one uncle of her wanted to sell one of his houses in Peru and he didn't book tickets earlier. But my friend learnt to know Leda and brought her to us. She told us that her dad and our today's housekeeper wanted to sell his banana plantation :waving: And we changed our emigration plans and I spoke with some of my importantest friends, what's better, Peru or Brazil. My friends told me, Brazil is better. Enough precepications and water, without risk of earthquakes and volanic eruptions. So I decided for Brazil. And the guest family in Pinneberg treated Leda very badly and like one slave. So that her mom in Brazil requested me by email to help her to find one better guest family. I came to one idea to host her and to become her new guest father. I spoke with my wife, and my wife requested me very strongly to host Leda. So that Leda moved to us in August of the past year. And since we do know her, she teachs us in Portuguese. And I learnt very much, so that I can communicate with her parents and brother in Lucianópolis. My friend took one lawyer and divorced from his Peruvian wife. Leda's mom looked for properties in the area of Lucianópolis in the state of Sao Paulo. She found one house for 5,000 euros and one mansion for only 40,000 euros (later rised to 49,000 euros, at least 55,000 euros). But the house for 5,000 euros is too bad and the yard too small. So that we decided for the mansion. But the seller also wanted to sell his mansion and offered it uns and told us, that his orange mansion is better than the yellow. And the yard is so big, 3,619.02 square metres. So that we bought our mansion in the past winter. We were 2 times in Brazil, and on 23rd August we will travel to Brazil for 4 weeks again. Our mansion is our vacation house, Leda's family keeps our mansion, our garden and my banana collection. :03: More about our banana garden in Brazil: Jardim de Banana Lucianópolis (http://www.jardimdebanana.de.vu) , currently only in German, but one English and one Portuguese version are planned. There are no bananas yet, but I will do change it in the next month. I will get pups from Maca, Prata, Ouro and Nanica from the old neighbour of the family of Leda. Also Helton from Frutas Raras will provide me in my banana yard project. I also sent him 11 species of Musa and Ensete to Brazil, he will germinate them and give me the seedlings back for my yard in Lucianópolis later.

Best wishes
Joachim

AnnaJW
08-08-2008, 06:11 PM
Congratulations, Joachim, on your book!!! :nanadrink:

microfarmer
08-10-2008, 03:37 PM
Congratulations on getting published and all the best wishes on your new property. It sounds like you have been on quite a rollercoaster ride the last few months!

Please keep us all posted on your new plantation, and include some pictures, too.

:lurk:

saltydad
11-29-2008, 02:04 AM
Joachim- We're anxiously awaiting word on the English edition. Any further news? Thanks.

CookieCows
11-29-2008, 05:57 AM
I can't wait for the English version of your book! I'll definitly be buying one.

Deb

Bob
11-29-2008, 08:19 AM
Put me down for a copy!:woohoonaner:

Taylor
11-29-2008, 10:43 AM
When you click to see in the book (at Amazon), I see photos from Mitchel and Frank. Were any other members used? I would like to buy it in the future, and maybe I could contribute a photo to a future edition or a different book.

What a cool project!

Mark Hall
01-26-2009, 01:24 PM
Joachim, Whats the latest on the book in English?

I have looked on UK amazon but its not on there. A nice book to see me through the rest of the winter would help cheer me up.

Basjoofriend
01-26-2009, 03:44 PM
Hi,

I'm now writing the English version of my banana book, the title of the English version will be "Bananas For Cold Climate", at the same time it will also be one update with 100 species and cultivars. The Brazilian version will be named "Bananas para cultivar no Brasil", in Portuguese. But my English version is a bit delayed, because I had an accident last October, I broke my right leg. One van snubbed me, the driver broke the traffic rules and his insurance pays compensation for personal suffering. I was operated and had to stay in the wheelchair for 3 months, since last Tuesday I'm learning to walk again. Now I can walk more and more better without crutches.

Best wishes
Basjoofriend

Bananaman88
01-26-2009, 03:52 PM
Glad to hear you are doing better. I'm sure we are all looking forward to being able to purchase the English version of your book!

Mark Hall
01-26-2009, 05:13 PM
Wishing you a speedy recovery then Joachim.

Do you have a date in mind for compleation?

Sorry but I'm desperate:ha:

51st state
01-26-2009, 05:14 PM
Joachim, Whats the latest on the book in English?

I have looked on UK amazon but its not on there. A nice book to see me through the rest of the winter would help cheer me up.

hiya mark
i bought it on amazon.de just tap in the isbn number and it should pick it up ISBN 978-3-8370-5455-2 shipping was standard price (i guess it all comes out of the same warehouse)

Bob
01-26-2009, 05:19 PM
Sorry to hear about your accident Joachim. It takes time to get better from such a serious injury hope your doing well as can be.:bed::exercise:

saltydad
01-26-2009, 05:20 PM
hiya mark
i bought it on amazon.de just tap in the isbn number and it should pick it up ISBN 978-3-8370-5455-2 shipping was standard price (i guess it all comes out of the same warehouse)

You bought the English version? Still not completed yet per Joachim. J- so sorry to hear about your accident. Glad to see you're coming along..slow but sure. Good luck!

51st state
01-27-2009, 10:01 PM
You bought the English version? Still not completed yet per Joachim. J- so sorry to hear about your accident. Glad to see you're coming along..slow but sure. Good luck!


Hi Howard, no i bought the german version, just couldn't wait.

Mark Hall
04-24-2009, 02:27 PM
Just bumping this up again to see if there is any further development with the English Translation version???

Jack Daw
05-22-2009, 06:17 PM
Just bumping this up again to see if there is any further development with the English Translation version???
Just wanted to conclude this thread by linking to the thread about the newly prepared English version.
http://www.bananas.org/f2/pictures-english-version-german-banana-book-8075.html

jfern
06-02-2009, 07:09 PM
Felicidades Joachim por tu libro sobre bananas en alemán, estuve observando el indice y esta muy buena la publicación, porque abarca todas las enfermedades y otros aspectos muy importantes.

Ojalá más adelante exista una versión en español.

griphuz
10-02-2009, 01:02 PM
Hmm, appartnely you can read the book online at google books:

(I hope I dont breack any rules here, of offend Joachim, as people can find the book for themselves anyway)

Bananen in Mitteleuropa: Anleitung ... - Google Boeken (http://books.google.nl/books?id=aJvHzv-LLTQC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false)


The book is much more of a value however to have as a hardcopy!
Kind regards,
Remko

Basjoofriend
03-17-2010, 08:55 AM
Update: My publishing house bod.de is now offering one translation service to translate books from German to English. And I'm building one internet franchise business with my wife, this takes too much time. And to self translate from German to English it will take too much time to get my book quickly ready to publish. So I will write one new edition of my German banana book about banana cultivation worldwide, in the tropics, in the subtropics and colder climates, so that the new book will be flexible to be translated to English, Portuguese (for Brazil) and Spanish. When my new German worldwide version is ready, I will let the BoD translation service translate my book to English at first, the translation will take only 4 to 8 weeks acording of BoD. Then I will let translate the English version of my new banana book to Portuguese in Brazil with the help of my friend Helton, he has some friends which do speak German and Portuguese.

I will begin in Brazil in my mansion when my wife is working at the computer with internet, I will work with her notebook without internet in the kitchen. Currently we have only one internet link in Brazil, later we will let install one second internet link in our mansion. I will rebuild my old banana book to one for translations flexible edition. E. g. different climate maps and describitions for worldwide. Then you will see which climate zones Brazil, South America, North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand do have, and where the coldest areas where Musa basjoo will still overwinter outdoors. Not only the classic commerical banana growing areas! But for home gardens, greenhouses, wintergardens, container growing. Then many people in Brazil, South America and tropical countries will know that bananas do thrive also in colder climates with ice and snow!

Best wishes
Joachim

Jack Daw
03-17-2010, 09:51 AM
I will begin in Brazil in my mansion when my wife is working at the computer with internet, I will work with her notebook without internet in the kitchen. Currently we have only one internet link in Brazil, later we will let install one second internet link in our mansion.
Try router, that should be efficient enough and it's pretty easy to build and configure, so that it works.

...different climate maps and describitions for worldwide. Then you will see which climate zones Brazil, South America, North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand do have, and where the coldest areas where Musa basjoo will still overwinter outdoors...
What type of climate maps do you intend to use? USDA, Koppens or something else?
:waving:

Basjoofriend
07-18-2010, 02:39 PM
Hi,

now is my manuscript ready, only I have to check, correct and improve it. It has approx. 200 pages. But it is still in German, the book title is in German "Tropische, subtropische und winterharte Bananen", the English version will have the title "Tropical, Subtropical And Coldhardy Bananas".

I'm looking for one lector which is speaking, reading and writing German very well. The lector will get one copy free after the publishing of the book. Anyone does speak German very welll?? Anyone is German and with best German language knowledges?

When the book is ready and improved, I will build one cover and convert the word document to pdf document to upload it to Ihr eigenes Buch erstellen und veröffentlichen: BoD - Books on Demand GmbH (http://www.bod.de). bod.de has also the translation service, I will try to use it to get one English version for you.

Yes, the climate map is new, this is from one Brazilian website, one map of the world with the minimum temperatures in the past 30 years. So you can see, where you are able to overwinter one basjoo outdoors. E. g. in Russia, Japan, China, Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa, Afghanistan, Turkey, Ukraine, Romania, Aserbaidschan, Israel, Poland, Tschechei, Slowakei, Sweden, Canada, Patagonia, Ireland, Tasmania etc. The northernmost outdoor sites of Musa basjoo are in the warmest and mildest parts of Sweden and Norway. In Finland is the basjoo not hardy enough, but there Markku Häkkinen is living, he is one best known banana researcher.

@Jack Daw, I couldn't write in the kitchen in Brazil because of one missing mouse, I cannot use the touch pad of the notebook well, I can use the notebook with mouse better. I will buy one mouse and take it to Brazil. But I use the personal computer in the livingroom of my mansion.

Best wishes
Basjoofriend

Basjoofriend
07-18-2010, 04:43 PM
Hi all,

now I have found one lector in Greece, he is German emmigrant in Greece and is also growing bananas, he is BB73. BB73 wrote me, that he will check my manuscript, thank to him!

Best wishes
Joachim

saltydad
07-18-2010, 05:03 PM
Thanks for the updates, Joachim. And I hope you have healed up nicely. Looking forward to the English translation. Did any of my photos help you?

Bananaman88
07-19-2010, 03:03 PM
Sweet- progress!

bananafarmer
05-07-2012, 04:19 PM
Hallo Joachim,

gratuliere Dir zur Publikation deines Buches.

Ich hoffe ich komme dazu dein Buch zu lesen, bisher habe ich noch keine deutschsprachigen Bücher zum Bananenanbau gelesen. Ich hoffe das kann ich noch nachholen.

Freundliche Grüsse aus der Türkei

Clinton3666
05-10-2012, 08:18 PM
:woohoonaner: :goteam:

Hi,
I understand you were making the book about bananas in cool climate.

I lives in Thames, New Zealand and Thames is in zone 10.

Thames had 10 frosts a year, with average lowest winter temperature 30C above freezing point, but somes go to -1oC below freezing point for few nights on June, July and sometimes on May and August.
June to August are cold wettest months.

Hamilton is in zone 9, with 70 frosts a year, and temperature go below -10 below freezing point for few nights.

I am farming the edible banana plants in small plantations and at my place and hybridizing the ornamental banana plants at my place.

Ornamental bananas plants:
hybrid musa aurantiaca x musa mannii
hybrid musa ornata pink flower x musa velutina
hybrid musa mannii x musa ornata red flower
musa mannii
musa velutina
musa laterita
musa violacea
musa ornata pink flower
musa ornata purple flower
musa ornata lavendar flower
musa coccinea
musa beccarii var beccarii
Blood banana
musa basjoo
musa balbisiana
musa balbisiana "Burmese Blue"
musa intinerans
musa bordelon
musa violascens (I still am growing them, may not be cold hardy) three 1 1/2-year-old plants, with four suckers (two suckers per one plant).
musa campestris (extinct) I grew them, but they died when they are 1 1/2 year-old, due to either I over-watered them or poorly drained soil or not cold hardy.
musa hirta seeds failed to germinate.
musa voonii seeds failed to germinate.
musa textilis seeds failed to germinate.
musa beccarii var hottana seeds failed to germinate.

Edible banana plants:
Ae Ae (varigated)
Brazilian
Orinoco
Mahoi
Dwarf Cavendish
Super Dwarf Cavendish
Apple (Sometimes called Hamoa)
Australian Ladyfinger
Blue Java
Dwarf Orinoco (extinct)
Rhino Plantain (extinct)
Missy Uffy (extinct ?)
Cardaba (extinct)
Red Dacca
Dwarf Jamaican Red
Driveway
Goldfinger
Granae Naine
Enano Gigante (extinct)
Bluggoe (extinct)
Fhia-2 (extinct)
Fhia-3 (extinct)
Fhia-18 (extinct)
Fhia-23 (extinct)
Lacatan (extinct)
Misi Luki
Pacha Nadaan
Pisang Awak
Mons Mars
Mysore
Tongan Pineapple
Rajapuri
Pata Sina
Samoan Large
Samoan Paka
Williams
Te Kopuru
Pacific Plantain (extinct)
Pisang Rajah (extinct)
Red Green (extinct)
Rekua (extinct)
Robusta (extinct)
Saimea (extinct)
Sucrier (extinct)
Tu Gia
Huamoa
Gros Michel (extinct)

Three un-named cultivars, from Te Puru and Kuranui Street and Amy Street (both in Thames).

Unknown cultivars: Cook Island Dwarf Cavendish, Dwarf Mons Mari, Gold Cavendish, Lemon Ladyfinger, Samoan Misi Uffy, and one unknown cultivar from Kevin Toms, and other unknown cultivar from ex-Ray Freeman near Omahi Beach.

Ensete ventricosum
Ensete maurelii
Musella lasiocarpa

I also grew cold hardy heliconias:

h. subulata
h. penduloides
h. pendula
h. dielsiana
h. angusta
h. latispath
h. aurantiaca
h. scheideana
h. lankesteri (4 seeds failed to germinate)
h. tortuosa
h. lingulata
h. spissa
h. bourgaeana
h. griggsiana
h. nutans
h. secunda
h. velloziana (I will import on lata August)

Cheers

Clinton Care.

Hi,

I'm now writing the English version of my banana book, the title of the English version will be "Bananas For Cold Climate", at the same time it will also be one update with 100 species and cultivars. The Brazilian version will be named "Bananas para cultivar no Brasil", in Portuguese. But my English version is a bit delayed, because I had an accident last October, I broke my right leg. One van snubbed me, the driver broke the traffic rules and his insurance pays compensation for personal suffering. I was operated and had to stay in the wheelchair for 3 months, since last Tuesday I'm learning to walk again. Now I can walk more and more better without crutches.

Best wishes
Basjoofriend