The Botany of Desire
Subtitle: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Publisher: Random House
Published: May 8, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780375501296
First sentence: 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.