HOW FLOWERS MADE OUR WORLD

David George Haskell shows how the most trivialized part of the natural world is among its most powerful and essential.' Rebecca Solnit, author of Orwells Roses'David George Haskell's great strength as a writer is that he is open to surprise. He regards the planet as a strange and beautiful place. How Flowers Made Our World is at once closely observed, richly reported, and mind-blowing.' Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth ExtinctionFar from being mere ornaments, flowers have shaped the very fabric of life on our planet.