The Botany of Desire
Subtitle: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Random House
Published: May 28, 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780375760396
Copyright date: 2001
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.
Description: A Random House Trade Paperback
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements/xi; title: Introduction The Human Bumblebee/xiii; title: Chapter 1 Desire: Sweetness/ Plant: The Apple/1; title: Chapter 2 Desire: Beauty/ Plant: The Tulip/59; title: Chapter 3 Desire: Intoxication / Plant: Marijuana/111; title: Chapter 4 Desire: Control/ Plant: The Potato/ 181; title: Epilogue/239; title: Sources/247; title: Index/ 257