Enrich Your Travels with Longitude
We've got the classic, new and hard-to-find books and maps to help you get the most out of your adventures.
The Botanist and the Vintner, How Wine Was Saved for the World
by Christy Campbell
- SCIENCE
- 2006
- PAPER
- 314 PAGES
E-MAIL
PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION
In this witty book British journalist Christy Campbell interweaves a dramatic tale of the devastation of vineyards in 1860's France with cultural history and the mad race by scientists (and others) to discover the cause and cure. The French were none too pleased that salvation (as well as the disease) came in the form of American root stock. The mysterious disease, ultimately diagnosed as a tiny phyloxerra aphid, threatened vines in Italy, Portugal, Germany and Switzerland. Eastern Europe and as far afield as Australia.
Longitude provides recommended reading for travelers in partnership with the leading tour operators and travel programs for hundreds of destinations worldwide. We've got the classic, new and hard-to-find books and maps to help you get the most out of your adventures.