The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Michael Pollan) Brooklyn NY: Meredith Press

NY: Meredith Press

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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Michael Pollan) Brooklyn NY: Meredith PressEvery 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. Pollan masterfully links four fundamental human desiressweetness, beauty, intoxication, and controlwith the