{"product_id":"a-rum-affair-by-karl-sabbagh","title":"A Rum Affair by Karl Sabbagh","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.\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780140278286\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43009851719743,"sku":null,"price":9.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/8626\/8223\/files\/25670633482237.jpg?v=1773662002","url":"https:\/\/bookconnection.com.au\/products\/a-rum-affair-by-karl-sabbagh","provider":"The Book Connection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}