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Karl Sabbagh

A Rum Affair

A True Story of Botanical Fraud

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'An exciting scientific detective story' - Times Literary Supplement 'A breezy ride . . . informative and amusing' - Washington Post Book WorldIn the 1940s, the eminent British botanist John Heslop Harrison proposed a controversial theory: that vegetation on the islands off the west coast of Scotland had survived the last Ice Age. His premise flew in the face of what most botanists believed - that no plants had survived the 10,000-year period of extreme cold. But Heslop Harrison had proof - the plants and grasses found on the isle of Rum.Harrison didn't anticipate, however, an amateur botanist called John Raven, who boldly questioned whether… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-85790-906-0
  • EAN: 9780857909060
  • Produktnummer: 20216327
  • Verlag: Birlinn
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 280 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'894 KB

Über den Autor


Karl Sabbagh is a writer, journalist and TV producer. He is the author of a dozen books, including The Living Body (with Christian Barnaard), Power into Art and Palestine: A Personal Journey.

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