Pomegranate Roads.Pomegranate pomegranate (pŏm`grănĭt, pŏm`ə–), handsome deciduous and somewhat thorny large shrub or small tree (Punica granatum Roads Dr. Gregory M. Levin Floreant Press 6195 Anderson Road Anderson Road (Traditional Chinese: 安達臣道; Simplified Chinese: 安达臣道 , Forestville, CA 95436 9649497068 $18.00 www.floreantpress.com Written by Dr. Gregory M. Levin, Pomegranate Roads: A Soviet Botanist's Exile from Eden is part memoir, part botanist's testimony to a lifetime devoted to researching, collecting, and striving to better understand the humble yet delicious pomegranate. The collapse of the Soviet Union left Levin cut off from his remote Soviet agricultural station and considering himself effectively "exiled from Eden". From the lore of the fruit that tempted Persephone and possibly Adam and Eve Adam and Eve In the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions, the parents of the human race. Genesis gives two versions of their creation. In the first, God creates “male and female in his own image” on the sixth day. , to Levin's trek across Central Asia and the Trans-Caucasus in search of wild and endangered pomegranates, to tidbits TidBITS is an award-winning electronic newsletter and web site dealing primarily with Apple Computer and Macintosh-related topics. Internet publication TidBITS has been published weekly since April 16, 1990, which makes it one of the longest running Internet publications. of folklore to health benefits to pharmaceuticals connected to the pomegranate, Pomegranate Roads truly astonishes the reader with the many secrets of a seemingly ordinary edible fruit. A handful of black-and-white photographs and an inset section of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color plates illustrate this one-of-a-kind celebration of the pomegranate, written as much for lay readers as for fellow botanists. |
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