Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine by Gary Paul Nabhan

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

Gary Paul Nabhan

264 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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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 recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin ja...

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