The botany of desire : a plant's-eye view of the world
(Audiobook CD)

Subtitle from container.

Compact discs.

Duration: 8:56:00.

Read by Scott Brick.

Demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires, sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control, with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind's most basic yearnings. And just as we've benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them.