新书掠影 A quick glimpse at some new books
之前,我曾经一页一页仔细通读了约翰•里德的《地球之子》,这本书描述了人类的生态适应历史,介绍了我们搜集、种植或交易来生息繁衍的手段、地点和内容。在新著《马铃薯秘史》中,里德为马铃薯及其有史以来的食用者写了一本生态社会和科学传记。这本书比前作更加引人入胜。
I’ve followed John Reader to the ends of our planet before, across the pages of Man on Earth, his primer of human niche adaptation -- how, where and what we scavenged, planted or traded to sustain ourselves and leave descendents. The Untold Story of the Potato – Reader’s geosocial and scientific biography of Solanum tuberosum and all who have eaten of it -- is even more original than that earlier work.
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