Phylloxera

By Christy Campbell,

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A historical investigation into the mysterious bug that wiped out the vineyards of France and Europe in the 1860s - and how one young botanist eventually 'saved wine for the world'.

In the early 1860s, vines in the lower Rhone valley, and then around Bordeaux, inexplicably began to wither and…

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1 author picked Phylloxera as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

An entertaining story of how the mystery of why vines were withering and dying in swathes in the late 19th century was solved. Campbell brings these ugly miniscule root munching girls interestingly to life by intertwining amusing yarns of the sometimes eccentric methods and people of the time involved in the eventual discovery of the solution to the dying vines.

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