By reproducing both U.S.D.A. plant explorer Palemon Howard Dorsett's photographs and his narrative, Preston gives an unparalleled view of the phenomenal effort made by the Chinese to establish, grow, and sell persimmons in and around Peking in the 1930s.
By reproducing both U.S.D.A. plant explorer Palemon Howard Dorsett's photographs and his narrative, Preston gives an unparalleled view of the phenomen...
Hope and Folly was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
Created in a burst of idealism after World War II, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) existed for forty years in a state of troubled yet often successful collaboration with one of its founders and benefactors, the United States. In 1980, UNESCO adopted the report of a commission that surveyed and...
Hope and Folly was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again acc...
