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

Michael Pollan es autor de siete libros anteriores, incluidos Cooked, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore's Dilemma y The Botany of Desire, todos los cuales fueron bestsellers del New York Times. Colaborador desde hace mucho tiempo de la revista New York Times, también enseña escritura en Harvard y la Universidad de California, Berkeley. En 2010, la revista TIME lo nombró una de las cien personas más influyentes del mundo.

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World pdf por 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?