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_bL48 2006
082 0 0 _a92 LEV
100 1 _aLevin, Dr. Gregory M.
245 1 0 _aPomegranate roads
_b: a Soviet botanist's exile from Eden
_c/ Gregory Moiseyevich Levin ; translated from the Russian by Margaret Hopstein
260 _aForestville, Calif.
_b: Floreant Press
_c, c2006.
300 _ax, 183 p., [8] p. of plates
_b: ill. (some col.), maps
_c; 23 cm.
520 _aAs a child during the German siege of Leningrad, Gregory Levin saved his mother from dying of scurvy by boiling up pine needles. As a young botanist, he foraged beneath many trees of knowledge before committing his life to studying the pomegranate, the ruby globe whose beauty tempted Persephone, and as Levin believes, Adam and Eve.
600 1 0 _aLevin, Gregory Moiseyevich
_c, Dr.
650 0 _aBotanists
_x--Turkmenistan
_v--Biography
650 0 _aPomegranate
_x--Research
_x--Turkmenistan
_y--20th century
942 _cMO
999 _c232604
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