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Michael Pollan

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Michael Pollan is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine as well as a contributing editor at Harper’s magazine. He is the author of two prizewinning books: Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education and A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder. Pollan lives in Connecticut with his wife and son.

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We Made a Garden

Written by Fish Margery
Introduction by Michael Pollan

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: February 19, 2002
Price: $15.00

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The Botany of Desire
A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Written by Michael Pollan

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: May 28, 2002
Price: $16.00

Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal... Read more >
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The Botany of Desire
A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Written by Michael Pollan

Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $16.00

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