Where Our Food Comes From Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine |
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| Author:
| Nabhan, Gary Paul |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61091-003-3 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2011 |
| Publisher: | Island Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat for the country's famines, Vavilov had traveled over five ......
The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat for the country's famines, Vavilov had traveled over five ......