The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
ISBN-13:
9780375760396
ISBN-10:
0375760393
Author:
Michael Pollan
Publication date:
2002
Publisher:
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format:
Paperback
271 pages
Category:
Horticulture
,
Agricultural Sciences
,
Botany
,
Biological Sciences
,
Plants
,
Nature & Ecology
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ISBN-13:
9780375760396
ISBN-10:
0375760393
Author:
Michael Pollan
Publication date:
2002
Publisher:
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format:
Paperback
271 pages
Category:
Horticulture
,
Agricultural Sciences
,
Botany
,
Biological Sciences
,
Plants
,
Nature & Ecology
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (ISBN-13: 9780375760396 and ISBN-10: 0375760393), written by authors
Michael Pollan, was published by Random House Trade Paperbacks in 2002.
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The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. InThe Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. InThe Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?
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