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

✍ Michael Pollan 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 Random House 🌐 English ⚖ 166 KB 👁 1 views

The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries

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

✍ Pollan, Michael 📂 Fiction 📅 2002 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 162 KB

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

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

✍ Pollan, Michael 📂 Fiction 📅 2002 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 161 KB

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

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

✍ Pollan, Michael 📂 Fiction 📅 2002 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 167 KB

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

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

✍ Pollan, Michael 📂 Fiction 📅 2002 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 162 KB

### Amazon.com Review Working in his garden one day, Michael Pollan hit pay dirt in the form of an idea: do plants, he wondered, use humans as much as we use them? While the question is not entirely original, the way Pollan examines this complex coevolution by looking at the natural world from the

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

✍ Pollan, Michael 📂 Fiction 📅 2002 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 162 KB

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