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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Exploring the life of an explorer,
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This review is from: Pomegranate Roads: A Soviet Botanist's Exile from Eden (Paperback)
Some chapters of this book make you feel like you've just watched an Indiana Jones movie, while other chapters would make a great NOVA science episode. On his scientific treasure hunt for exotic pomegranates, Dr.Gregory Levin has--unassumingly-- run into vipers dancing on their tails, and seen cave paintings of kangaroos on the border of Iran and Turkmenistan! Levin knows which godesses were idolized in pomegranates and what the penalty was for felling a pomegranate tree in ancient Egypt. Yet the tone of this adventure is deeply thoughtful. In 1941 when young Levin and his parents were digging trenches around Leningrad in preparation for the seige, Levin watched a drift of butterflies land on a nearby tree. "Their life cycle was ending," Levin says,"and they had all landed on the tree to die. The tree was their cemetary." Here's an author who sees reflections of the human condition in Nature all around us. And like a good hiking companion he doesn't keep pointing things out, but leaves you alone to take it all in for yourself.
Ari Siletz, author of "The Mullah With No Legs and Other Stories."
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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An Adventure in Pomegranates!,
By HarveyC (Northern California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pomegranate Roads: A Soviet Botanist's Exile from Eden (Paperback)
I purchased this book primarily to learn about pomegranates as I am in the process of planting a small orchard of pomegranates. I found it to be a wonderful history lesson and an adventure. I am planting several of Dr. Levin's cultivars and have a great appreciation for all of the work he carried out for some 40 years, often at great risk of life. I often felt I was on these adventures and now wonder if I could ever participate in some exploratory treks. It's painful to read how the research stations have been bulldozed and wish more of the 1,117 cultivars could be rescued. It was hard to put this book down and I now have a much greater appreciation for being able to grow some of Dr. Levin's cultivars. I only hope I can do them justice!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Fascinating memoir about a life of passionate curiosity and protection of pomegranates,
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This review is from: Pomegranate Roads: A Soviet Botanist's Exile from Eden (Paperback)
Pomegranate Roads is a one of a kind memoir that reflects the history of Soviet Science, the botany and culture of pomegranates, the personal history of an intrepid explorer and botanist who worked his entire life in the remote areas of Central Asia and the Caucasus to collect and protect the species. Dr. Levin created the world's largest pomegranate collection, 1117 accessions, in Turkmenistan before the collapse of the USSR and his exile. He describes just about everything you'd want to know from the range of tastes and health benefits to all the myths and stories. As he writes, "I was fortunate to have met the pomegrnate early in my life, to have been attuned to its energy, and to have my thoughts and deeds dedicated to it for many years." A great book about planet pomegranate.
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