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The Botany of Desire

A Plant's-Eye View of the World

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An edition of ↪ /works/OL3296485W: a plant's eye view of the world (2001)

The Botany of Desire

A Plant's-Eye View of the World

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.80 ·
  • 15 Ratings
  • 168 Want to read
  • 4 Currently reading
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Random House Trade Paperbacks
Language
English
Pages
304

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Subjects
Gardening, Nature, Human-plant relationships, Nonfiction, Plants and civilization, Ethnobotany, Nature, effect of human beings on, Large type books
People
William Ellery Jones, Johny Appleseed, John Chapman, Forsline, Jack Goody, Anna Pavord, Carolus Clusius, Richard Dawkins (1941-), Carl Sagan (1934-1996), Charles Darwin (1809-1882), Idaho
Places
Mount Vernon, Ohio, Mansfield, Cincinnati, Geneva, New York, Amsterdam, Manhattan, Milford, Mexico, California

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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
May 28, 2002, Random House Trade Paperbacks, Random House
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The botany of desire: a plant's eye view of the world
2001, Random House
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First Sentence

"If you happened to find yourself on the banks of the Ohio River on a particular afternoon in the springs of 1806-somewhere just to the north of Wheeling, West Virginia, say-you would probably have noticed a strange makeshift craft drifting lazily down the river."

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements/xi
Introduction The Human Bumblebee/xiii
Chapter 1 Desire: Sweetness/ Plant: The Apple/1
Chapter 2 Desire: Beauty/ Plant: The Tulip/59
Chapter 3 Desire: Intoxication / Plant: Marijuana/111
Chapter 4 Desire: Control/ Plant: The Potato/ 181
Epilogue/239
Sources/247
Index/ 257

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Copyright Date
2001

Contributors

Cover Design
Allison Saltzman
Cover Photographs
Rosemary Porter
Book Designer
J.K.Lambert

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxvi , 274p
Number of pages
304

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OL7427599M
Internet Archive
botanyofdesire00poll
ISBN 10
0375760393
ISBN 13
9780375760396
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410
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13839

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