3.8
The Botany of Desire A Plants-eye View of the World
Focusing on the human relationship with plants, the author 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.
GardeningNatureEcologyPlants
RELEASED2001
PUBLISHERG.K. Hall
LENGTH355
LANGUAGEEN
Michael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He writes about the places where nature and culture intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in the built environment.
3.8
The Botany of Desire A Plants-eye View of the World
Focusing on the human relationship with plants, the author 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.
GardeningNatureEcologyPlants
RELEASED2001
PUBLISHERG.K. Hall
LENGTH355
LANGUAGEEN
Michael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He writes about the places where nature and culture intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in the built environment.
