Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan is an American author and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. His books found wide acclaim and have been on the New York times bestseller list for many weeks.
Now his books are also available as downloadable audio books:
Michael Pollan MP3 Audio Books Downloads OnlineBotany of Desire, The: A Plant's-Eye View of the World - Michael Pollan
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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, the plants have also benefited at least as much from their association with us.
So who is really domesticating whom?
Listen to a sample recording of this great and fascinating audio book here:
Botany of Desire, The: A Plant's-Eye View of the World - Michael Pollan - Audio Book
Michael Pollan at a Glance
Michael Pollan (born February 6, 1955) is an American professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley,Faculty page at UC Berkeley where he is also director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism.
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