The Botany of Desire Young Readers Edition English 2024
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ISBN:
9780593531549
Publisher:
Penguin USA
Pages:
208
Weight:
231 g
Dimensions:
14 x 21 x 1 cm
Book Cover:
Saddle-sewn
Thema:
- Children’s / Teenage general interest: Nature, animals, the natural world
In this entertaining young readers edition of the environmental studies classic, Michael Pollan demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a reciprocal relationship. He links four fundamental human desires-sweetness, beauty, energy, and control-with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, coffee, 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 helped them to thrive.
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