Plants' Desires: The World Through Plants' Eyes -- Open Humanities

Author: Michael Pollan (USA), translated by Wang Yi
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: In this book, best-selling author Michael Pollan tells fascinating stories about four everyday plants. These four plants contain some of the most important connections between humans and nature. Pollan weaves captivating anecdotes and easily understandable science into elegant prose, narrating a chronicle that seems clearly shared with these plants. The writing is skillfully crafted, a completely original narrative about humans and nature, a book about how plants develop our desires and tame us. In this book, best-selling author Michael Pollan tells fascinating stories about four everyday plants. These four plants contain some of the most important connections between humans and nature. Pollan weaves captivating anecdotes and easily understandable science into elegant prose, narrating a chronicle that seems clearly shared with these plants. The writing is skillfully crafted, a completely original narrative about humans and nature, a book about how plants develop our desires and tame us.