The botany of desire

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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 later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant—though this time the obsessions revolves around the intoxicating effects of marijuana rather than the visual beauty of the tulip. How could flowers, of all things, become such objects of desire that they can drive men to financial ruin?

In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan argues that the answer lies at the heart of the intimately reciprocal relationship between people and plants. In telling the stories of four familiar plant species that are deeply woven into the fabric of our lives, Pollan illustrates how they evolved to satisfy humankinds’s most basic yearnings—and by doing so made themselves indispensable. For, just as we’ve benefited from these plants, the plants, in the grand co-evolutionary scheme that Pollan evokes so brilliantly, have done well by us. The sweetness of apples, for example, induced the early Americans to spread the species, giving the tree a whole new continent in which to blossom. So who is really domesticating whom?

Weaving fascinating anecdotes and accessible science into gorgeous prose, Pollan takes us on an absorbing journey that will change the way we think about our place in nature.

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The Botany of Desire

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Focusing on the human relationship with plants the author of second nature 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 100 000 first printing Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

The Botany of Desire Young Readers Edition

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By the bestselling author of the omnivore s dilemma this is michael pollan s ingenious companion book about the surprising and close relationship between people and plants in this entertaining young readers edition of the environmental studies classic michael pollan demonstrates how people and do Uiterlijk 21 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

Second Nature

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Chosen by the american horticultural society as one of the seventy five greatest books ever written about gardening second nature has become a manifesto for rethinking our relationship with nature with chapter ranging from a reconsideration of the great american lawn and a dispatch from one man s Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: E-book

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 12 juni 2001

Aantal pagina's: 320

Ebook Formaat: Adobe ePub

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Michael Pollan

Hoofduitgeverij: Random House

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Product breedte: 140 mm

Product hoogte: 28 mm

Product lengte: 165 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 130 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 27 mm

Verpakking lengte: 199 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 259 g

EAN: 9781588360083

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