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  • The Botany of Desire

  • A Plant's-Eye View of the World
  • Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
  • Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
  • Durée: 8 h et 32 min
  • 3,7 out of 5 stars (7 évaluations)

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The Botany of Desire

Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
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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

In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant—though this time the obsessions revolves around the intoxicating effects of marijuana rather than the visual beauty of the tulip. How could flowers, of all things, become such objects of desire that they can drive men to financial ruin?

In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan argues that the answer lies at the heart of the intimately reciprocal relationship between people and plants. In telling the stories of four familiar plant species that are deeply woven into the fabric of our lives, Pollan illustrates how they evolved to satisfy humankinds’s most basic yearnings—and by doing so made themselves indispensable. For, just as we’ve benefited from these plants, the plants, in the grand co-evolutionary scheme that Pollan evokes so brilliantly, have done well by us. The sweetness of apples, for example, induced the early Americans to spread the species, giving the tree a whole new continent in which to blossom. So who is really domesticating whom?

Weaving fascinating anecdotes and accessible science into gorgeous prose, Pollan takes us on an absorbing journey that will change the way we think about our place in nature.

©2001 Michael Pollan (P)2022 Random House Audio

Ce que les critiques en disent

"I find this book to be inspirational—curiosity and gentleness of spirit forming genius."—Richard Ford

"Michael Pollan is a sensualist and a wonderful, funny storyteller. He is so engaging that his profound environmental messages are effortlessly communicated. He makes you fall in love with Nature."—Alice Waters

“This book is as crisp as an October apple, as juicy as an August tomato, as long-awaited as the first flower of spring,. Michael Pollan has conceived a new and powerful understanding of who we are, and how we stand in relation to everything else—and the stories he tells to prove the point make the world seem a richer place.”—Bill McKibben, author of Long Distance and The End of Nature

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Throughly enjoyed it!

I recommend this to plant lovers and folks who wish to broaden their perspective. Michael Pollan has a wonderful way of seeing things.

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Meh

Not sure if it was his voice but I found it dry overall. Many part were interesting but it overall I had difficulty paying attention.

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