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Botany of Desire, the (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Botany of Desire, theEvery 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. In "The Botany of Desire, " Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship.
Full description- Publisher: Random House USA Inc
- Published: 01 July 2002
- Format: Paperback 304 pages
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- Categories: Botany & Plant Sciences | Applied Ecology | Gardening | Trees, Wildflowers & Plants
- ISBN 13: 9780375760396 ISBN 10: 0375760393
- Sales rank: 27,820
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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?
