The release date for the English version of 'The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World' by
Michael Pollan is Aug 2018. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Every student in school is taught about the beneficial dance between flowers and honeybees: In the process of gathering nectar and pollen to produce honey, the bee disperses the genes of the flowers across the environment. Michael Pollan cleverly illustrates in The Botany of Desire how mankind and domesticated plants have developed a same reciprocal connection. He skillfully connects the four basic human needs—beauty, intoxication, sweetness, and control—with the plants—pot, tulips, apples, and potatoes—that fulfil them. By narrating the tales of four well-known species, Pollan shows how plants have developed to satiate humankind's most fundamental needs. Not only have these plants helped us, but we have also profited from them. In reality, therefore, who is domesticating whom?