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 1,687 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 1,739 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 4,298 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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    • A Natural History of Fragrance
    • By: Elise Vernon Pearlstine
    • Narrated by: Tegan Ashton Cohan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 4,884 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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    • 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 11,163 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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    • A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution
    • By: Anurag Agrawal
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 266 ratings
    • Informed and erudite, Tobacco is a vivid and provocative look into the complex history of this precious plant....

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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....

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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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    • 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
    • Release date: 07-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • 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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