The Botany of Desire: A Plants-eye View of the World

Michael Pollan

G.K. Hall, 2001 - 355 Seiten

Focusing on the human relationship with plants, the author uses botany to explore four basic human desires--sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control--through portraits of four plants that embody them: the apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato.

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Nutzerbericht  - LynnB - LibraryThing

Very interesting book about the interrelationship between people and plants, specifically how various human desires have meshed with -- or messed with -- the desire of plants to procreate. The author ...

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Nutzerbericht  - snash - LibraryThing

A very readable exploration of man's relationship to nature, particularly with our efforts to domesticate plants thereby forming a reciprocal relationship. The book includes a little philosophy, history, psychology as well as biology.

Über den Autor

Michael Pollan is a contributing writer for "The New York Times Magazine" as well as a contributing editor at "Harper's" magazine. He is the author of two prize-winning books: "Second Nature: A Gardener's Education" and "A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder." Pollan lives in Connecticut with his wife and son.

Bibliografische Informationen

• Titel: The Botany of Desire: A Plants-eye View of the World; G.K. Hall large print nonfiction series; Thorndike Nonfiction; Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series; Thorndike Press Large Print Popular and Narrative Nonfiction Series
• Autor/in: Michael Pollan
• Ausgabe: Großdruck
• Verlag: G.K. Hall, 2001
• ISBN: 0783896417, 9780783896410
• Länge: 355 Seiten