The Botany of Desire
Subtitle: A Plants-Eye View of the World
Edition: Largeprint edition
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: December 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780783896410
Subjects: Science/Mathematics; Plants - General; Human-plant relationships; Science; Gardening / Horticulture; Nature; Ecology; History; Life Sciences - Botany; Large type books
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.