Where Our Food Comes From
Retracting Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine
by Gary Paul Nabhan
2009 Quivira Conference Speaker
Contents:
by Gary Paul Nabhan
2009 Quivira Conference Speaker
Contents:
- Foreword by Ken Wilson
- 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
$24.00
Gary Paul Nabhan
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