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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... read more

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If you happened to find yourself on the banks of the Ohio River on a particular afternoon in the spring 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.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Human Bumblebee

1. Desire: Sweetness / Plant: The Apple
2. Desire: Beauty / Plant: The Tulip
3. Desire: Intoxication / Plant: Marijuana
4. Desire: Control / Plant: The Potato

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  1. Michael Pollan (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0-375-50129-0
Page Count: 304

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