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The Botany of Desire written by Michael Pollan performed by Scott Brick on MP3 CD (Unabridged)

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ISBN:  9781480555297
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Popular Science
Duration:  530 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Michael Pollan
Performer 1:  Scott Brick

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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, the plants have also benefited at least as much from their association with us. So who is really domesticating whom?

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