The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World-Fast Shipping

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“Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world.” —The New York Times

“A wry, informed pastoral.” —The New Yorker

The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, 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 theflowers’ genes far and wide. In
The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniouslydemonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocalrelationship. 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, Pollanillustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. Sowho is really domesticating whom?