A Rum Affair by Karl Sabbagh

A Rum Affair by Karl Sabbagh

As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: A Rum Affair by Karl Sabbagh  This book came out in 2016, and the subtitle is A True Story of Botanical Fraud. In this book, Karl tells the story of the eminent British botanist John Heslop Harrison, who always went by the name Jack. “Jack proposed a controversial theory:…

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