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

By Gary Paul Nabhan

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597263990
• ISBN13: 9781597263993
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Shearwater Books
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"