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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Contributor(s): Pollan, Michael (Author)

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ISBN: 0375760393     ISBN-13: 9780375760396
Publisher: Random House Trade
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2002
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Annotation: 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?
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BISAC Categories:
- Gardening
- Nature | Plants - General
- Nature | Ecology
Dewey: 306.45
Lexile Measure: 1350(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.32" W x 8" L (0.50 lbs) 304 pages
Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Index, Price on Product
Review Citations: 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
 
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Publisher Description:
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?

 
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