Plant History

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    • 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 943 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....

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    • 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 1,688 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....

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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 1,748 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....

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    • 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 4,299 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....

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    • 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....

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    • 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 108 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....

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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 11,187 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....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 533 ratings
    • The relationship between East and West has always been one of turmoil....

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    • 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 46 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....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 07-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 4,890 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....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 53 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....

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    • 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 267 ratings
    • Informed and erudite, Tobacco is a vivid and provocative look into the complex history of this precious plant....

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    • A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
    • By: M. Leona Godin
    • Narrated by: M. Leona Godin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • From Homer to Helen Keller, from Dune to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation, M. Leona Godin explores the fascinating history of blindness, interweaving it with her own story of gradually losing her sight...

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    • 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 243 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....

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