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

ISBN: 9780375760396 | 0375760393
Edition: 1st
Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date: 5/28/2002

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Seasoned garden writer Michael Pollan explores the histories of apples, tulips, potatoes, and marijuana, showing in the process how humanity and plants intersect and affect each other.
Acknowledgmentsxi
Introduction The Human Bumblebeexiii
Desire: Sweetness / Plant: The Apple
1(58)
Desire: Beauty / Plant: The Tulip
... MORE
59(52)
Desire: Intoxication / Plant: Marijuana
111(70)
Desire: Control / Plant: The Potato
181(58)
Epilogue239(8)
Sources247(10)
Index257
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 prizewinning 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.


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