Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End
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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 recognise 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 centres 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.
Author: Gary Paul Nabhan
Format: Hardback, 264 pages, 153mm x 229mm, 520 g
Published: 2008, Princeton University Press, United States
Genre: Social Studies: General
The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognise 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 centres 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.