A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud
 

A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud

by Karl Sabbagh

Take a garrulous old university professor with a knack for making extraordinary (and highly suspicious) botanical discoveries, a scientific community becoming increasingly skeptical of his claims, and an amateur botanist keen to find out the truth, and the stage is set for an absorbing tale of scientific chicanery and academic intrigue.
Professor John Heslop Harrison of Newcastle... (read more)

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A gem of a book about academic honest in a microcosm and the socially complex meaning of truth. Raven is my hero.

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