Phylloxera: How Wine was Saved for the World by Christopher Campbell

Phylloxera: How Wine was Saved for the World

Christopher Campbell

314 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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A historical investigation into the mysterious bug that wiped out the vineyards of, first, 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'. B...

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