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

Michael Pollan ist Autor von sieben früheren Büchern, darunter „Cooked“, „Food Rules“, „In Defense of Food“, „The Omnivore’s Dilemma“ und „The Botany of Desire“, die alle Bestseller der New York Times waren. Als langjähriger Mitarbeiter des New York Times Magazine lehrt er außerdem Schreiben in Harvard und an der University of California, Berkeley. 2010 ernannte ihn das TIME Magazin zu einem der hundert einflussreichsten Menschen der Welt.

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World pdf von Michael Pollan

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 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. 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, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?