'It is a work of profound and accurate scholarship, the product, over long years, of patient and careful research. Side by side with the history of the potato, its adoption by man and its spread throughout the world, is a study of the influence which it has exerted on the social structure of those people who accepted it as a ... Read morestaple article of diet.' Nature 'It is a great work, in many respects a noble work, that will excite attention and arouse interest in many quarters.' The Spectator 'His profound learning and the felicity of phrase with which he is able to express it from a combination which carries the reader avidly from page to page … Dr Salaman has written a truly monumental work.' Horticultural Abstracts 'This book stands as the high achievement of an erudite and humane person of wide knowledge and even wider understanding.' Heredity Show Less