A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud by Karl Sabbagh

A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud

Karl Sabbagh

288 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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In 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 belie...

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