TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nabhan,Gary Paul
TI  - Where our food comes from: retracing Nikolay Vavilov's quest to end famine 
SN  - 9781597263993 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - QK46.5.D58 N33 2009
U1  - 581.6/32 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - Island Press/Shearwater Books
KW  - Vavilov, N. I.
KW  - Centers of plant diversity
KW  - Plant collecting
KW  - Botanical specimens
KW  - Collection and preservation
KW  - Food crops
KW  - Germplasm resources
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0816/2008013945.html
ER  -