50 plants that changed the world - Bill Laws

The wonderfully illustrated non-fiction book tells fascinating stories about plants that have influenced the history of mankind.

Plants are part of our everyday life: we eat vegetables, move in nature, buy flowers, dig in the garden, build with wood and use fossil fuels. We rarely think about how many ways we use plants and how vitally important they are to us. If we treat them and nature well, we protect the world and our own future at the same time.

Along with the discovery, processing and utilization of plants, the book examines their economic, political and cultural meanings.