- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Headline Book Publishing; New edition edition (1 Feb 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747262675
- ISBN-13: 978-0747262671
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,282,911 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Thomas Fairchild, a practical nurseryman in Georgian London, shook the horticultural world by revealing the sexual reproduction of plants. Although alarmed at the prospect of interfering with God's natural design, he could not resist the inevitable consequence of his discovery - the selective breeding of plant varieties. This early form of genetic engineering aroused as much controversy then as genetically modified plants are causing now and scientific debate raged furiously.
About the Author
Michael Leapman is a journalist who writes regularly on gardening for the Sunday Telegraph, The Economist and the Mail on Sunday. He also contributes to The Times media page. He is a keen gardener with an allotment in Brixton.
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If youre interested in gardening and plants this book will fascinate you. It tells the story of the man who started hybridising plants, thus giving us the possibility of the many varieties we enjoy today. Before him no one knew how to do it. And if you live in Hackney, the locations are fascinating too. A good read.
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NOT something I can recommend...
29 Dec 2001
Format:Hardcover
a book that required gritted-teeth to complete.
If you were expecting a Dava Sobel style (Longitude) book of fascinating insight and drama, you will be deeply disappointed.
The author wanders randomly through 17th century gardening, seemingly without direction or interest.
If you expected to see HOW Mr Fairchild did things, you won't get it. If you expected explanations on the methods used, you won't get it. If you expected even rudimentary paragraphs on the sex organs of plants or a light-weight explanation of SAP flow, once again, you won't find it. If you wanted endless vague descriptions of people long dead, then this book is for you.
The final few pages top of an execrable book by being blatently pro-GM, despite most intelligent people having grave misgivings on the directions being taken.
I cannot recommend the book unless you already have a detailed knowledge of gardening and 17th century Britain. But then you don't need this book either.
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