The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

"Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural...
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Author: Michael Pollan
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Pollan, Michael

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

€25,17

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

€25,17
Author: Michael Pollan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
"Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world." --The New York Times

"A wry, informed pastoral." --The New Yorker

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. 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 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?

Author: Michael Pollan
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 05/28/2002
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.32w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9780375760396


Review Citation(s):
BookPage 05/01/2002 pg. 25
Entertainment Weekly 05/31/2002 pg. 100
New York Times 06/02/2002 pg. 44
New York Review of Books 08/15/2002 pg. 17
Newsweek 10/15/2007 pg. 14
Newsweek 07/13/2009 pg. 48

About the Author
Michael Pollan is the author of seven books, including Cooked: The Natural History of Transformation, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, and The Omnivore's Dilemma. A longtime contributor to The New York Times, he is also the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010, Time magazine named him one of the one hundred most influential people in the world.

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