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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.
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?
Praise for the narrator: Scott Brick uses his skill with expression.to produce an audible intoxication. --AudioFile
It takes about 5 Hours and 35 minutes on average for a reader to read The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. This is based on the average reading speed of 250 Words per minute.
The Lexile score for The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World is 1350.
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World is 271 pages long.
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