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<p>In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant thought this time the obsessions revolves around the intoxicating effects of marijuana rather than the visual beauty of the tulip. How could flowers, of all things, become such objects of desire that they can drive men to financial ruin?<p> In <i>The Botany of Desire</i>, Michael Pollan argues that the answer lies at the heart of the intimately reciprocal relationship between people and plants. In telling the stories of four familiar plant species that are deeply woven into the fabric of our lives, Pollan illustrates how they evolved to satisfy humankinds&#39;s most basic yearnings and by doing so made themselves indispensable. For, just as we&#39;ve benefited from these plants, the plants, in the grand co-evolutionary scheme that Pollan evokes so brilliantly, have done well by us. The sweetness of apples, for example, induced the early Americans to spread the species, giving the tree a whole new continent in which to blossom. So who is really dom

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Author

Pollan, Michael

Publisher

Random House Trade Paperbacks; Random House

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375760396

Category

science

Subjects

Fiction, Science, History

Rating

4.05 / 5 (37,715 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13