Fairchild, D. The World Grows Round My Door. The Story of the Kampog, A Home on the edge of the Tropics. 1st. Ed. Pub. Charles Scribner. 1947
pp.xii, 347 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Hardback. Contents fine. Original cloth boards thor. vg.
David Grandison Fairchild was an American botanist and plant explorer. Fairchild was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the United States, including soybeans, pistachios, mangos, nectarines, dates, bamboos, and flowering cherries.
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