Where Our Food Comes From Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine

Name: Where Our Food Comes From Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine
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ISBN: 9781610910033

ISBN-10: 1610910036

ISBN-13: 9781610910033

Edition: 2nd 2011

Authors: Gary Paul Nabhan

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Book details

List price: $30.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 3/16/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

He is a prize-winning author & naturalist, lives in Tucson, where he is director of conservation biology at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum & cofounder of Native Seeds/Search.



Foreword




The Art Museum and the Seed Bank



The Hunger Artist and the Horn of Plenty



Melting Glaciers and Waves of Grain: The Pamirs



Drought and the Decline of Variety: The Po Valley



From Breadbasket to Basket Case: The Levant



Date Palm Oases and Desert Crops: The Maghreb



Finding Food in Famine's Wake: Ethiopia



Apples and Boomtown Growth: Kazakhstan



Rediscovering America and Surviving the Dust Bowl: The U.S. Southwest



Logged Forests and Lost Seeds: The Sierra Madre



Deep into the Tropical Forests of the Amazon



The Last Expedition


Epilogue


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


About the Author


Index