Phylloxera: How Wine Was Saved for the World by Christy Campbell
Phylloxera is an entertaining, revealing and frequently astonishing account of one of the earliest and most successful applications of science to an ecological disaster.
Phylloxera
Phylloxera
Summary
This work presents a historical investigation into the mysterious bug that wiped out the vineyards of France and then Europe in the 1860s - and how one young botanist, who had served an apprenticeship at Kew Gardens, eventually 'saved wine for the world'.
Phylloxera Summary
About Christy Campbell
Christy Campbell is a writer, journalist and former defence correspondent and feature writer for the Sunday Telegraph, which he joined on the eve of the Gulf War. He is the author of The Maharajah's Box and Fenian Fire.
Additional information
GOR011910369
9780007115358
0007115350
Phylloxera: How Wine Was Saved for the World by Christy Campbell
Used - Like New
Hardback
HarperCollins Publishers
20040216
352
Winner of Glenfiddich Awards: Drink Book of the Year 2005
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