Plant History

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    • 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
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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....

    Regular price: $24.19

    • Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
    • By: Richard Mabey
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
    • By: Amy Stewart
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 954 ratings
    • 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....

    Regular price: $21.04

    • A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
    • By: Iain Gately
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 268 ratings
    • Informed and erudite, Tobacco is a vivid and provocative look into the complex history of this precious plant....

    Regular price: $29.95

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    • A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
    • By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,841 ratings
    • 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
    • By: Kate Brown
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • Kate Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington, and Ozersk, Russia - the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium....

    Regular price: $20.20

    • The History of the World Written in Rings
    • By: Valerie Trouet
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Trouet, a leading tree-ring scientist, takes us out into the field, from remote African villages to radioactive Russian forests, offering listeners an insider's look at tree-ring research, a discipline formally known as dendrochronology....

    Regular price: $17.19

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    • Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
    • By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11,588 ratings
    • 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....

    Regular price: $19.34

    • 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
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,937 ratings
    • 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....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
    • By: Anthony Pagden
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 535 ratings
    • The relationship between East and West has always been one of turmoil....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • A Plant's-Eye View of the World
    • By: Michael Pollan
    • Narrated by: Michael Pollan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
    • In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant....

    Regular price: $18.00

    • 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
    • Release date: 09-28-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,316 ratings
    • 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....

    Regular price: $15.47

    • Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
    • By: Roland Ennos
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 208 ratings
    • “A lively history of biology, mechanics, and culture that stretches back 60 million years” (Nature) The Age of Wood reinterprets human history and shows how our ability to exploit wood’s unique properties has profoundly shaped our bodies and minds....

    Regular price: $18.74

    • Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
    • By: Suzanne Simard
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Simard
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,380 ratings
    • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery....

    Regular price: $20.25

    • Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives
    • By: Stephen Buchmann
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • 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....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • 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
    • Release date: 08-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,700 ratings
    • 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....

    Regular price: $19.95

    • A Handy Guide for Writers and the Sunflower Curious
    • By: Jess Schira
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-25
    • Language: English
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    • All over the world, sunflowers grow in ditches, farm fields, and yards. They tower over the surrounding plants, their strong stems supporting the ...

    Regular price: $3.99

    • How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
    • By: Sarah Rose
    • Narrated by: Sarah Rose
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 286 ratings
    • Here is the remarkable account of Robert Fortune's journeys into China - a thrilling narrative that combines history, geography, botany, natural science, and old-fashioned adventure....

    Regular price: $14.61

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