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Andy Warner's Oddball Histories: Spices and Spuds: How Plants Made Our World

Andy Warner's Oddball Histories: Spices and Spuds: How Plants Made Our World

Warner, Andy

Paperback

Series: Andy Warner's Oddball Histories, Book 2

Juvenile Graphic NovelsScience & Nature

Publisher Price: $12.99

ISBN10: 0316498270
ISBN13: 9780316498272
Publisher: Little, Brown Ink
Published: Nov 5 2024
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
From New York Times bestselling author Andy Warner comes a highly entertaining, informative graphic novel that traces our ever-evolving relationship with plants through time.

Did you know that plants helped shape our modern world?

It may sound ridiculous, but empires have risen and fallen because of stuff you'd find in your grocery store's vegetable aisle. Through wars, famine, prosperity, and more, every aspect of our lives and livelihoods has something to do with plants!

Whether or not you notice them, plants are as central to our day-to-day lives as a bowl of rice or a plate of pasta, and they have shaped our history the same way a gardener trims a topiary.

Did you know that a pepper blockade led to the Age of Exploration? How about that huge wheat barges once kept Rome running with free bread? Or that whole wars were fought over tea? Get ready to follow corn's weird journey from the floating fields of the Aztec emperors to the glossy shine on this book's cover.

Andy Warner sifts through the roots and leaves of our long, complicated history with the earth's original green resources in this hilarious, fact-filled follow-up to Andy Warner's Oddball Histories: Pests and Pets.

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