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A completely new look at plants - not only in food, drink and commerce, and how they have created civilisation, trade and empires, but also in love, war, crime, horror and delight, in music, poetry and prose, and on the screen.
Not just another gardening or plant book, this is a complete picture of how plants affect people, for better or worse, now, in the past and in the future with illuminating and startling facts about their ubiquitous presence in human affairs - through life, death, illness, happiness, murder, despair, desperation, love, hate, loss, and far more.
From Presidents to pop stars, from scientists to slavers, royals to religious leaders, chefs to charlatans, pioneers to politicians, artists to actors, Plants & Us is a unique overview of plants, wild and cultivated, their vital importance and the threats they face. Above all, how they affect all our lives in stories that will often surprise the reader.
Contents
Plants as heroes
Plants as villains
Plants in war
Plants in peril
Plants and money
Plants and places
Eating and drinking
Plants and societies
Plants on parade
Art, architecture and decoration
Screen, stage and sound studios
What of the future?
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