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Contents
Foreword by Ken Wilson xi
CHAPTER ONE
The Art Museum and the Seed Bank 1
CHAPTER TWO
The Hunger Artist and the Horn of Plenty 22
CHAPTER THREE
Melting Glaciers and Waves of Grain: The Pamirs 45
CHAPTER FOUR
Drought and the Decline of Variety: The Po Valley 65
CHAPTER FIVE
From Breadbasket to Basket Case: The Levant 74
CHAPTER SIX
Date Palm Oases and Desert Crops: The Maghreb 84
CHAPTER SEVEN
Finding Food in Famine's Wake: Ethiopia 93
CHAPTER EIGHT
Apples and Boomtown Growth: Kazakhstan 113
CHAPTER NINE
Rediscovering America and Surviving the Dust Bowl: The U.S. Southwest 125
CHAPTER TEN
Logged Forests and Lost Seeds: The Sierra Madre 139
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Deep into the Tropical Forests of the Amazon 162
CHAPTER TWELVE
The Last Expedition 175
Epilogue 191
Bibliography 199
Acknowledgments 211
About the Author 213
Index 215