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The Botany of Desire: a Plant's Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Botany of Desire: a Plant's Eye View of the World about?

SUMMARY: 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?

Who reads The Botany of Desire: a Plant's Eye View of the World?

Author

Michael Pollan

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375501296

Category

science

Subjects

Fiction, Science Of Science, Science

Rating

4.05 / 5 (37,715 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14