The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World - Softcover

Pollan, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375760393 ISBN 13: 9780375760396

Verlag: Random House Publishing Group, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Pollan Michael

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Críticas

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

"[Pollan] has a wide-ranging intellect, an eager grasp of evolutionary biology and a subversive streak that helps him to root out some wonderfully counterintuitive points. His prose both shimmers and snaps, and he has a knack for finding perfect quotes in the oddest places.... Best of all, Pollan really loves plants."
--The New York Times Book Review

"A wry, informed pastoral."
--The New Yorker

"We can give no higher praise to the work of this superb science writer/ reporter than to say that his new book is as exciting as any you'll read."
--Entertainment Weekly

"A whimsical, literary romp through man's perpetually frustrating and always unpredictable relationship with nature."
--Los Angeles Times

Reseña del editor

Focusing on the human relationship with plants, the author of Second Nature 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. 100,000 first printing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375760393
• ISBN 13: 9780375760396
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304