A Rum Affair
A True Story of Botanical Fraud
'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…
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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
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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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