Mario Del Curto: Seeds of the Earth
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Author: del Curto, Mario
In a former tsarist palace in what is now St. Petersburg, botanist Nikolaï Vavilov, predicting the disappearance of plant biodiversity, built the world's first seed bank. A living museum, the Vavilov Institute hosts roughly 330,000 specimens and stands as a monument to its creator. Part meditation on the scope of Vavilov's work and part travelogue into the heart of the Vavilov Institute and its 12 satellite stations, it is a beautiful and urgent meditation on food security, ecology and history.
ISBN 9782330079055. Actes Sud. hb. 320 pages. 200 colour. 21.6 x 31.8 cm.
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In a former tsarist palace in what is now St. Petersburg, botanist Nikolaï Vavilov, predicting the disappearance of plant biodiversity, built the world's first seed bank. A living museum, the Vavilov Institute hosts roughly 330,000 specimens and stands as a monument to its creator. Part meditation on the scope of Vavilov's work and part travelogue into the heart of the Vavilov Institute and its 12 satellite stations, it is a beautiful and urgent meditation on food security, ecology and history.
ISBN 9782330079055. Actes Sud. hb. 320 pages. 200 colour. 21.6 x 31.8 cm.
available