Karl Sabbagh
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A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud
Karl Sabbagh
The mysterious Isle of Rum is one of the Inner Hebrides situated off the west coast of Scotland. Rugged and mountainous, its brooding beauty and natural diversity attracted an eminent British botanist, John Heslop Harrison of Newcastle University, who claimed to have discovered several species of rare plants there that had never been observed within five hundred miles of the island. These discoveries helped him make his mark as one of Britain’s outstanding scientists. But in A Rum Affair, Karl Sabbagh begins to question those discoveries, after stumbling…
