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    10 Plants That Shook the World
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    10 Plants That Shook the World

    By Gillian Richardson and Kim Rosen

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    Plants might start out as leafy things growing in the earth, but they can come into our lives in unexpected ways. And believe it or not, some have even played an exciting role in our world's history. Discover how:

    - Countries went to war to control trade centers for pepper
    - A grass called papyrus became the first effective tool for sharing knowledge through writing
    - Europeans in the 1600s cut down rainforests to grow sugar, contributing to soil erosion
    - Cotton improved the livelihoods of a few, but caused unthinkable suffering for many more
    - Corn fueled new technologies and turns up in thousands of everyday products
    - The discovery of rubber revolutionized transportation, making bike and car tires possible
    - Tea and chocolate became big business, and the race for profits was on
    - Dependence on the potato caused one of the greatest tragedies in history, while the bark of the cinchona tree saved countless lives from malaria.

    The ten plants in this book are the source of profound changes in the world, both good and bad. Through vibrant illustrations and astonishing facts, you'll discover that without them, our lives today would be vastly different.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnnick Press
    Release dateApr 1, 2013
    ISBN9781554515202
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    10 Plants That Shook the World
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    Gillian Richardson

    Gillian Richardson ha sido profesora y bibliotecaria en varias provincias canadienses. Vive cerca del lago Shuswap, en la Columbia Británica, ha escrito veinte libros para jóvenes y es profesora de escritura. En 2010 fue galardonada con el premio Science Writing del American Institute of Physics.

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    • 5/5
      Gillian Richardson has done a great deal of research and interviews in writing this amazing book. She clarifies what you might know and tells you what you don't know about the history of these plants. Though a grandmother, I learned more than I expected from this book that is geared mostly to school children, something I always look for in a book--something new. The illustrations are fun and will add to the pleasure for young readers.I would not have guessed pepper was once worth as much as gold, nor that corn in its original form could have been around 80,000 years ago. Not only that but how important corn has been, not just for eating but in so many products used in the past century.There is a lot of human history, not always happy, packed into this book along with the history of these ten plants. This is education at its best; fun, exciting and a pleasure to read. There is a Map of Plant Origins, Bibliography and other suggested reading. I heartily recommend it to anyone interested in learning about the way plants have changed the world, be it in food, industry or medicine. Who knows? Maybe a young reader will become an ethnobotanist!
    • 4/5
      Pretty solid overview of each plant, each was convincingly world-changing. It was responsible in its nod to the overarching politics at the time, and my kiddo noted the commonality of slavery as a component of the rise of a world-changing plant.