REMARKABLE PLANTS THAT SHAPE OUR WORLD

Plants are truly remarkable: even with all our modern technological prowess they still feed, clothe and shelter us, help transport u s and can intoxicate and cure us. Organized thematically, eight sections cover all aspects of our interaction with plants starting w ith those crops that were fundamental to the development of cultures and civilizations, and those that enliven our diet beyond the b asics, such as saffron and chilli peppers. Other sections look at plants that have helped to create our material world, as well as t hose tha...[Read more]