By: Amanda Bensen Published: March 2nd, 2009 I just finished reading a new book by the prolific Gary Paul Nabhan , whose resume astounds me: He landed a half-million-dollar MacArthur Fellowship (aka “genius grant”) early in his career, and has written some 30 books since then, in addition to several teaching gigs and founding a [...]
By: Adrian Higgins Published: January 4th, 2009 Nikolay Vavilov anticipated his demise at least four years before the KGB starved him to death, but he knew then that his pioneering work as a botanist would endure. “We shall go to the pyre. We shall burn. But we shall not retreat from our convictions,” he said [...]
By: Yahoo-Green Published: Dec. 20th, 2008 In this beautifully told nonfiction narrative, Gary Paul Nabhan shows how climate change, economics, genetic engineering, and tiny seeds all over the world will affect our future. The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first [...]
By: Janet Raloff Published: Dec. 20th, 2008 Few people give thought to where the tomato, apple or walnuts in their salad came from. Or what grains gave rise to the wheat in their bread or barley in their beer. University of Arizona ethnobotanist Nabhan was intensely curious about these questions—and about the exploits of the [...]
