What Have Plants Ever Done for Us?: Western Civilization in Fifty Plants

by Stephen Harris

Plants are an indispensable part of our everyday lives. From the coffee bean that gets roasted for our morning brew to the grasses that feed the animals we eat to the rubber tree that provides the raw materials used in the tires of our cars, we depend on plants for nearly every aspect of our lives. With What Have Plants Ever Done for Us?, Stephen Harris takes readers step by chronological step through the role of plants in the rise of the Western...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851244476
• ISBN13: 9781851244478
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Bodleian Library
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.5"