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Author:
Vietmeyer, Noel, 1940- author.
Title:
Our daily bread : the essential Norman Borlaug / Noel Vietmeyer.
Edition:
Memorial Edition
Publisher:
Bracing Books,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
275 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Subject:
Borlaug, Norman E.--(Norman Ernest),--1914-2009
Borlaug, Norman E.--(Norman Ernest),--1914-2009
Agriculturists--United States--Biography.
Food supply
Wheat.
Agriculturists
Food supply
Wheat.
United States
Biographies
Other Titles:
Borlaug.
Notes:
"June 2013." Includes index. [Previously published in three parts as Borlaug; The Mild-Mannered Maverick Who Fed a Billion People.]
Contents:
part I. The Home Side [USA] : 1914-27, Darkness ; 1928-23, Dawn ; 1933-35, Hunger pains ; 1936-37, Forester ; 1938-44, Problem solver -- part II. The Near side [The Americas] : 1944-45, Breaking hearts ; 1946, Breaking rules ; 1947-48, Near death ; 1949-53, All fall down ; 1954-59, The quiet revolution -- part III. The Far Side [Asia] : 1960-62, Deliverance ; 1963 Pivot point ; 1964-65, Breaking bread ; 1966-67, Opposition; 1968-69, Problem solved.
Summary:
Norman Borlaug's work in breeding wheat is a large part of the reason the world has not yet run out of food. This is the story of his life and his struggles.
Pulitzer Prize winner from Cresco Iowa. Memorial Edition donated by Cresco Center.
ISBN:
0578095556
9780578095554
OCLC:
(OCoLC)881428969
Locations:
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
VYPA964 -- Fort Atkinson Public Library (Fort Atkinson)
GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)

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