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Title: Pomegranate Roads: A Soviet Botanist's Exile from Eden
Author: Gregory Moiseyevich Levin
Translator: Margaret Hopstein
Publisher: Floreant Press
Year: 2006
Country: Turkmenistan
203 pages
Turkmenistan.
Combining pomegranate history and observations with his biography as a pomegranate scientist, Levin also manages to impart a great deal of information about both living through World War II and the effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union on science, scientists, and policy in former Soviet nations.
This may sound dry but it's very interesting and charming. Levin's great love for Turkmenistan and his ambivalence about leaving after 40 years make this the most poignant botany book you're likely to read.
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