Plant History

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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: 27-12-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 404 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 Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
    • By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 19-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 60 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 Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
    • By: Amy Stewart
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 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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    • A Natural History of Fragrance
    • By: Elise Vernon Pearlstine
    • Narrated by: Tegan Ashton Cohan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
    • By: Anthony Pagden
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-2008
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The relationship between East and West has always been one of turmoil....

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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: 01-06-2021
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • A Plant's-Eye View of the World
    • By: Michael Pollan
    • Narrated by: Michael Pollan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant....

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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: 05-03-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 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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    • 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: 18-07-2018
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • 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: 04-08-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 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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    • 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: 02-05-2023
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • A Scientist's Quest to Name Every Living Thing
    • By: Karen Magnuson Beil
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-2019
    • Language: English
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    • The globetrotting naturalists of the 18th century were the geeks of their day: innovators and explorers who lived at the intersection of science and commerce. Foremost among them was Carl Linnaeus, a radical thinker who revolutionized biology....

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    • The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants
    • By: Maura C. Flannery
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 25-07-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Maura C. Flannery tells the history of herbaria, from the earliest collections belonging to such advocates of the technique as sixteenth-century botanist Luca Ghini, to the collections of poets, politicians, and painters, and to the digitization of these precious specimens today....

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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: 21-07-2015
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
    • By: Mark Bittman
    • Narrated by: Mark Bittman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From bestselling author and pioneering journalist Mark Bittman comes an expansive look at how history has been shaped by humanity’s appetite for food, farmland, and the money behind it all—and how a better future is within reach....

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    • The History of the World Written in Rings
    • By: Valerie Trouet
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Trouet, a leading tree-ring scientist, takes us out into the field, from remote African villages to radioactive Russian forests, offering listeners an insider's look at tree-ring research, a discipline formally known as dendrochronology....

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    • The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World
    • By: Lauren E. Oakes
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-2018
    • Language: English
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    • Eloquent, insightful, and deeply heartening, In Search of the Canary Tree is the surprisingly hopeful story of ecologist Lauren E. Oakes' search for resiliency in a warming world....

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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: 15-08-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • By: Steve Plant
    • Narrated by: William Berkshire III
    • Length: 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-2019
    • Language: English
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    • The middle ages was a time of severe punishment and harsh torture for crimes that today would seem trivial. People were beheaded and limbs cut off, vagabonds were often whipped and chained in stocks. People lived in a state of fear thinking they would be the next victim....

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