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The Botany of Desire

by Michael Pollan

  • FINISHED
  • Finished October 2016
  • First published 2001

nature plants science

Pollan tells the story of four plants, the apple, tulip, cannabis and potato, and how each shaped human culture while humans shaped them.   It is a study of the relationship between people and plants.