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

Michael Pollan è l'autore di sette libri precedenti, tra cui Cooked, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore's Dilemma e The Botany of Desire, tutti bestseller del New York Times. Collaboratore di lunga data del New York Times Magazine, insegna anche scrittura ad Harvard e all'Università della California, Berkeley. Nel 2010, la rivista TIME lo ha nominato una delle cento persone più influenti al mondo.

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