Plant History
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The Drunken Botanist
- The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
- By: Amy Stewart
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub when medieval physicians boiled juniper berries with wine to treat stomach pain. The Drunken Botanist uncovers the surprising botanical history and fascinating science and chemistry of over 150 plants, flowers, trees, and fruits (and even a few fungi).
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No more cheap tequila!
- By Cynthia on 03-23-13
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The Drunken Botanist
- The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-19-13
- Language: English
- Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub....
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The Triumph of Seeds
- How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
- By: Thor Hanson
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life, supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe. Just as the search for nutmeg and the humble peppercorn drove the Age of Discovery, so did coffee beans help fuel the Enlightenment and cottonseed help spark the Industrial Revolution. And from the fall of Rome to the Arab Spring, the fate of nations continues to hinge on the seeds of a Middle Eastern grass known as wheat.
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Delightfully simplistic!
- By Adrian on 03-30-16
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The Triumph of Seeds
- How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 08-04-15
- Language: English
- We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life, supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe....
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Gathering Moss
- A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
- By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites listeners to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.
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Soul Stirring
- By KatieBourgeois on 02-23-19
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Gathering Moss
- A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 09-19-18
- Language: English
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Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection inviting listeners to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses....
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The Incredible Journey of Plants
- By: Stefano Mancuso, Gregory Conti - translator
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
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In this accessible, absorbing overview, Mancuso considers how plants convince animals to transport them around the world, and how some plants need particular animals to spread; how they have been able to grow in places so inaccessible and inhospitable as to remain isolated; how they resisted the atomic bomb and the Chernobyl disaster; how they are able to bring life to sterile islands; how they can travel through the ages, as they sail around the world.
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Fun and Lovely read
- By MRS.Denning on 09-16-24
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The Incredible Journey of Plants
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 06-30-20
- Language: English
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Generation after generation, using spores, seeds, or any other means available, plants move in the world to conquer new spaces. The number and variety of tools through which seeds spread is astonishing....
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
- Revisioning American History
- By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military.
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Useful information, not quite listenable
- By endlessemma on 08-03-15
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
- Revisioning American History
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Series: ReVisioning History
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 11-18-14
- Language: English
- Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories....
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Food of the Gods
- The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge : A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
- By: Terence McKenna
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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Terence McKenna hypothesizes that as the North African jungles receded, giving way to savannas and grasslands near the end of the most recent ice age, a branch of our arboreal primate ancestors left the forest canopy and began living in the open areas beyond. There they experimented with new varieties of foods as they adapted, physically and mentally, to the environment. Among the new foods found in this environment were psilocybin-containing mushrooms.
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Not a scientific book
- By Jason on 06-06-19
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Food of the Gods
- The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge : A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 09-28-12
- Language: English
- Terence McKenna hypothesizes that as the North African jungles receded, a branch of our arboreal primate ancestors left the forest canopy and began living in the open areas beyond....
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Scent
- A Natural History of Fragrance
- By: Elise Vernon Pearlstine
- Narrated by: Tegan Ashton Cohan
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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In this wide-ranging and accessible new book, biologist-turned-perfumer Elise Vernon Pearlstine turns our human-centered perception of fragrance on its head and investigates plants' evolutionary reasons for creating aromatic molecules. Delving into themes of spirituality, wealth, power, addiction, royalty, fantasy, and more, Pearlstine uncovers the natural history of aromatic substances and their intersection with human culture and civilization.
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Fascinating & enjoyable
- By Natalie on 07-05-24
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Scent
- A Natural History of Fragrance
- Narrated by: Tegan Ashton Cohan
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 06-07-22
- Language: English
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Biologist-turned-perfumer Elise Vernon Pearlstine presents a fascinating exploration of the natural history of scent and human perceptions of fragrance from the viewpoint of plant and pollinator....
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The Reason for Flowers
- Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives
- By: Stephen Buchmann
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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Flowers, and the fruits that follow, feed, clothe, sustain, and inspire all humanity. Flowers are used to celebrate all-important occasions, to express love, and are also the basis of global industries. Americans buy 10 million flowers a day, and perfumes are a worldwide industry worth $30 billion annually. Stephen Buchmann takes us along on an exploratory journey of the roles flowers play in the production of our foods, spices, medicines, and perfumes while simultaneously bringing joy and health.
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Only for the Flower Lover
- By Anonymous User on 01-19-16
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The Reason for Flowers
- Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 07-21-15
- Language: English
- Stephen Buchmann takes us along on an exploratory journey of the roles flowers play in the production of our foods, spices, medicines, and perfumes while bringing joy and health....
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Brilliant Green
- The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence
- By: Stefano Mancuso, Alessandra Viola, Michael Pollan - foreword, and others
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? Or are they passive, incapable of independent action or social behavior? Philosophers and scientists have pondered these questions since ancient Greece, most often concluding that plants are unthinking and inert: they are too silent, too sedentary - just too different from us. Yet discoveries over the past 50 years have challenged these ideas, shedding new light on the extraordinary capabilities and complex interior lives of plants.
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A++
- By MRS.Denning on 09-15-24
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Brilliant Green
- The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 06-30-20
- Language: English
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Are plants intelligent? Philosophers and scientists have pondered these questions since ancient Greece, most often concluding that plants are unthinking and inert: they are too silent, too sedentary - just too different from us....
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The Cabaret of Plants
- Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
- By: Richard Mabey
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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A rich, sweeping, and compelling work of botanical history, The Cabaret of Plants explores dozens of plant species that for millennia have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief. Going back to the beginnings of human history, Richard Mabey shows how flowers, trees, and plants have been central to human experience not just as sources of food and medicine but as objects of worship, actors in creation myths, and symbols of war and peace, life and death.
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Can't wait to listen to again!
- By hyacinthgirl on 12-27-16
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The Cabaret of Plants
- Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 04-29-16
- Language: English
- The Cabaret of Plants explores dozens of plant species that for millennia have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief....
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The Untold History of Healing
- Plant Lore and Medicinal Magic from the Stone Age to Present
- By: Wolf-Dieter Storl
- Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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The Untold History of Healing takes the listener on an exciting, expansive journey of the history of medicine from the Stone Age to modern times, explaining that Western medicine has its true origins in the healing lore of Paleolithic hunters and gatherers, herding nomads, and the early sedentary farmers rather than in the academic tradition of doctors and pharmacists.
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Want to love it but its too hard to listen too
- By Angus on 09-06-18
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The Untold History of Healing
- Plant Lore and Medicinal Magic from the Stone Age to Present
- Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 08-15-17
- Language: English
- The Untold History of Healing takes the listener on an exciting, expansive journey of the history of medicine from the Stone Age to modern times....
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Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
- By: Robin Wall Kimmerer, Monique Gray Smith - adapter
- Narrated by: Monique Gray Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things—from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen—provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her bestselling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth's oldest teachers: the plants around us.
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The content and messages
- By Fasavi on 09-22-24
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Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
- Narrated by: Monique Gray Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 05-02-23
- Language: English
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Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things—from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen—provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her bestselling book Braiding Sweetgrass....
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Ten Drugs
- How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
- By: Thomas Hager
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, the first antibiotic, which saved countless lives, the first antipsychotic, which helped empty public mental hospitals, Viagra, statins, and the new frontier of monoclonal antibodies. This is a deep, wide-ranging, and wildly entertaining book.
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Engrossing to physicians & lay persons alike
- By C. White on 03-08-19
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Ten Drugs
- How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 03-05-19
- Language: English
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Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, and much more....
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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.
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Finally, Words
- By Donovan P Malley on 06-30-19
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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 12-27-15
- Language: English
- As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....
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Monarchs and Milkweed
- A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution
- By: Anurag Agrawal
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 8 hrs
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In Monarchs and Milkweed, Anurag Agrawal presents a vivid investigation into how the monarch butterfly has evolved closely alongside the milkweed - a toxic plant named for the sticky white substance emitted when its leaves are damaged - and how this inextricable and intimate relationship has been like an arms race over the millennia, a battle of exploitation and defense between two fascinating species.
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Great book, great read
- By Monhegan Monarch on 01-28-21
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Monarchs and Milkweed
- A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 12-08-20
- Language: English
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In Monarchs and Milkweed, Anurag Agrawal presents a vivid investigation into how the monarch butterfly has evolved closely alongside the milkweed and how this inextricable and intimate relationship has been like an arms race over the millennia....
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The Tree
- A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter
- By: Colin Tudge
- Narrated by: Enn Reitel
- Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins
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There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers and a banyan tree in Calcutta as big as a football field. From the tallest to the smallest, trees inspire wonder in all of us, and in The Tree, Colin Tudge travels around the world - throughout the United States, the Costa Rican rain forest, Panama and Brazil, India, New Zealand, China, and most of Europe - bringing to life stories and facts about the trees around us.
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Not the book described in the Audible summary
- By E. Miller on 04-28-17
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The Tree
- A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter
- Narrated by: Enn Reitel
- Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 07-05-16
- Language: English
- There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing....
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Tobacco
- A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
- By: Iain Gately
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
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Tobacco was first cultivated and enjoyed by the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas, who used it for medicinal, religious, and social purposes long before the arrival of Columbus. But when Europeans began to colonize the American continents, it became something else entirely - a cultural touchstone of pleasure and success and a coveted commodity that would transform the world economy forever.
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Interesting until a pro-smoking ending
- By Kelli on 12-25-20
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Tobacco
- A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 08-13-15
- Language: English
- Informed and erudite, Tobacco is a vivid and provocative look into the complex history of this precious plant....
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The Plant-Hunter's Atlas
- A World Tour of Botanical Adventures, Chance Discoveries and Strange Specimens
- By: Ambra Edwards, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens
- Narrated by: Ambra Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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The Plant Hunter's Atlas is a volume telling some of the most extraordinary tales of horticultural discovery and exploring the characters behind the stories. Taking in the world's inhabited continents and spanning the centuries, the stories range from tales of derring-do in the age of discovery to modern-day botanists working at the cutting-edge of science. The text explores how plant hunters have been inspired by everything from scientific curiosity to economic greed, and their own ingrained sense of adventure.
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The Plant-Hunter's Atlas
- A World Tour of Botanical Adventures, Chance Discoveries and Strange Specimens
- Narrated by: Ambra Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-01-21
- Language: English
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The Plant Hunter's Atlas is a volume telling some of the most extraordinary tales of horticultural discovery and exploring the characters behind the stories....
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Worlds at War
- The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
- By: Anthony Pagden
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
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In the tradition of Jared Diamond and Jacques Barzun, prize-winning historian Anthony Pagden presents a sweeping history of the long struggle between East and West, from the Greeks to the present day.
The relationship between East and West has always been one of turmoil. In this historical tour de force, a renowned historian leads us from the world of classical antiquity, through the Dark Ages, to the Crusades, Europe's resurgence, and the dominance of the Ottoman Empire, which almost shattered Europe entirely. Pagden travels from Napoleon in Egypt to Europe's carving up of the finally moribund Ottomans - creating the modern Middle East along the way - and on to the present struggles in Iraq.
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Great story, with a lot of unfamiliar names
- By Tad Davis on 07-02-08
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Worlds at War
- The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 03-21-08
- Language: English
- The relationship between East and West has always been one of turmoil....
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American Eden
- David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
- By: Victoria Johnson
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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When Dr. David Hosack tilled the country's first botanical garden in the Manhattan soil more than 200 years ago, he didn't just dramatically alter the New York landscape; he left a monumental legacy of advocacy for public health and wide-ranging support for the sciences. In melodic prose, historian Victoria Johnson eloquently chronicles Hosack's tireless career to reveal the breadth of his impact. The result is a lush portrait of the man who gave voice to a new, deeply American understanding of the powers and perils of nature.
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NYC as a semi-rural city
- By Elliott Wolfe, M.D. on 04-25-19
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American Eden
- David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-18-18
- Language: English
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When Dr. David Hosack tilled the country's first botanical garden in the Manhattan soil more than 200 years ago, he didn't just dramatically alter the New York landscape; he left a monumental legacy of advocacy for public health and wide-ranging support for the sciences....
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