Where our food comes from : retracing Nikolay Vavilov's quest to end famine
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Where our food comes from : retracing Nikolay Vavilov's quest to end famine
Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2009
- : cloth
- : pbk
Available at 6 libraries
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University Library for Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo図
: cloth615:N115010669223
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Height of pbk.: 23 cm
"A Shearwater book published by Island Press"--T.p. verso
Some issues have added pagination ("Photo credits" has been added between "Acknowledgments" and "About the author"): xxiii, 225 p., [8] p. of plates
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-210) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds in an effort to outline the ancient centers of agricultural diversity and guard against widespread hunger. Now, another remarkable scientist-and vivid storyteller-has retraced his footsteps. In Where Our Food Comes From, Gary Paul Nabhan weaves together Vavilov's extraordinary story with his own expeditions to Earth's richest agricultural landscapes and the cultures that tend them. Retracing Vavilov's path from Mexico and the Colombian Amazon to the glaciers of the Pamirs in Tajikistan, he draws a vibrant portrait of changes that have occurred since Vavilov's time and why they matter.
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