Description:
In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan uses science, literature,
history and philosophy to explore the relationship between plants and
humans. He focuses on four plants — potato, apple, marijuana, and
tulip. Some questions are: how can flowers be such an object of desire
that they can drive men to financial ruin? Who is really domesticating
whom, or what? This look at co-evolution is not only readable and engaging,
but also provides a new look at who we are and how we fit into the world.
Our panel:
Wes Reid
Janet White
Katherine Hale
Ethan Salter
Links
for this book:
Vicki
Oppenheimer's
Free
Williamsburg
Also
by this author:
Second
Nature: A Gardener's Education; Dell Publishing Company, Incorporated;
April 1992
A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder; Random House,
Incorporated; February 1997
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