David George Haskell
Praise for How Flowers Made Our World
David George Haskell's great strength as a writer is that he is open to surprise. He regards the planet as a strange and beautiful place. How Flowers Made Our World is at once closely observed, richly repo ...
Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction
In this dazzling book, scintillating with wonder and scholarship, Haskell shows us how flowers – so often belittled and misunderstood, have shaped ecology, and so shaped us. Flowers are tectonic, an ...
Charles Foster, author of The Edges of the World
'Who runs the world? Girls!’ sang Beyoncé a while back, but really it’s flowers and flowering plants that run this world and have for more than a hundred million years. In this vividly written book, David Geo ...
Rebecca Solnit, writer, historian, and activist, author of Orwell’s Roses
David George Haskell's great strength as a writer is that he is open to surprise. He regards the planet as a strange and beautiful place. How Flowers Made Our World is at once closely observed, richly repo ...
Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction
In this dazzling book, scintillating with wonder and scholarship, Haskell shows us how flowers – so often belittled and misunderstood, have shaped ecology, and so shaped us. Flowers are tectonic, an ...
Charles Foster, author of The Edges of the World
'Who runs the world? Girls!’ sang Beyoncé a while back, but really it’s flowers and flowering plants that run this world and have for more than a hundred million years. In this vividly written book, David Geo ...
Rebecca Solnit, writer, historian, and activist, author of Orwell’s Roses
David George Haskell's great strength as a writer is that he is open to surprise. He regards the planet as a strange and beautiful place. How Flowers Made Our World is at once closely observed, richly repo ...
Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction
In this dazzling book, scintillating with wonder and scholarship, Haskell shows us how flowers – so often belittled and misunderstood, have shaped ecology, and so shaped us. Flowers are tectonic, an ...
Charles Foster, author of The Edges of the World
'Who runs the world? Girls!’ sang Beyoncé a while back, but really it’s flowers and flowering plants that run this world and have for more than a hundred million years. In this vividly written book, David Geo ...
Rebecca Solnit, writer, historian, and activist, author of Orwell’s Roses