Foreword by Ken Wilson

Chapter one: The Art Museum and the Seed Bank

Chapter two: The Hunger Artist and the Horn of Plenty

Chapter three: Melting Glaciers and Waves of Grain: The Pamirs

Chapter four: Drought and the Decline of Variety: The Po Valley

Chapter five: From Breadbasket to Basket Case: The Levant

Chapter six: Date Palm Oases and Desert Crops: The Maghreb

Chapter seven: Finding Food in Famine’s Wake: Ethiopia

Chapter eight: Apples and Boomtown Growth: Kazakhstan

Chapter nine: Rediscovering America and Surviving the Dust Bowl: The U.S. Southwest

Chapter ten: Logged Forests and Lost Seeds: The Sierra Amazon

Chapter eleven: Deep into the Tropical Forests of the Amazon

Chapter twelve: The Last Expedition

Epilogue

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index