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The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world

By Michael , Pollan

Book information

Publisher
Inc., Random House
Year
2002
ISBN
1588360083, 9780375760396
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
267 kB (273693 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

SUMMARY: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. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desiressweetness, beauty, intoxication, and controlwith 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 humankinds most basic yearnings. And just as weve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?

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