{"product_id":"rum-affair-book-karl-sabbagh-9780140278286","title":"A Rum Affair","description":"The story of professor Heslop-Harrison, a distinguished academic at Newcastle University, who, over a period of years, strengthened the evidence for his theory of ice-age plant survival by \"planting\" flora in places where it had never been found before, and then \"discovering\" it. His nemesis came in the form of John Raven, a young classics don with a fierce passion for botany, who believed that he had caught the eminent professor red-handed on the isle of Rum in the summer of 1948. The scientific community closed ranks on the affair, Raven's evidence was never published, and Heslop-Harrison's continued to to dominate British botany for the next decade. This book tells the tragi-comic story.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49582913880337,"sku":"GOR001694798","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0140278281.jpg?v=1751290672","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/rum-affair-book-karl-sabbagh-9780140278286","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}