Subject: Re: Potatoes

From: [email-masked] (Jane Beckman)
Date: 24 May 93 21:06:26 GMT

For a thorough exploration of the potato and its influences on
the Irish, from the time of Sir Francis Drake onward, you
might also want to check the section devoted to it in 
Henry Hobhouse's _Seeds of Change: Five Plants that
Transformed Mankind_ Harper & Row, 1987.
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  Jilara   [[email-masked]]

"Every now and then, a big rock falls out of the sky, and everyone has 
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