- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Allen Lane; 1st Edition 1st Printing edition (5 Aug 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0713992778
- ISBN-13: 978-0713992779
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.8 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,356,291 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The story of professor Heslop-Harrison, a distinguished academic at Newcastle University, who, over a period of years, strengthened the evidence for his theory of ice-age plant survival by "planting" flora in places where it had never been found before, and then "discovering" it. His nemesis came in the form of John Raven, a young classics don with a fierce passion for botany, who believed that he had caught the eminent professor red-handed on the isle of Rum in the summer of 1948. The scientific community closed ranks on the affair, Raven's evidence was never published, and Heslop-Harrison's continued to to dominate British botany for the next decade. This book tells the tragi-comic story.
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A highly entertaining account of botanic intrigue,
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Who would have thought that a little known "scandal" in the world of botony would make such a good read. A Rum Affair is a very accessible book detailing a fascinating true story.As an academic researcher I found that it provided a timely warning of what can happen if you let your own predudices manipulate and distort the findings that you generate.
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