Where our food comes from : retracing Nikolay Vavilov's quest to end famine /
Nabhan, Gary Paul.
Where our food comes from : retracing Nikolay Vavilov's quest to end famine / Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's quest to end famine Gary Paul Nabhan ; foreword by Ken Wilson. - Washington, DC : Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2009. - xxiii, 223 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781597263993 (cloth : alk. paper) 1597263990 (cloth : alk. paper)
2008013945
Vavilov, N. I. 1887-1943.
Centers of plant diversity.
Plant collecting.
Botanical specimens--Collection and preservation.
Food crops--Germplasm resources--Collection and preservation.
QK46.5.D58 / N33 2009
581.6/32
QK5 / .N33 2009
Where our food comes from : retracing Nikolay Vavilov's quest to end famine / Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's quest to end famine Gary Paul Nabhan ; foreword by Ken Wilson. - Washington, DC : Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2009. - xxiii, 223 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781597263993 (cloth : alk. paper) 1597263990 (cloth : alk. paper)
2008013945
Vavilov, N. I. 1887-1943.
Centers of plant diversity.
Plant collecting.
Botanical specimens--Collection and preservation.
Food crops--Germplasm resources--Collection and preservation.
QK46.5.D58 / N33 2009
581.6/32
QK5 / .N33 2009