The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-eye View of the World
- ISBN-10
- 0375760393
- ISBN-13
- 9780375760396
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 271
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Author
- Michael Pollan
Description
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.
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