As always, Thor Hanson delivers. People here you are reading about seeds and think, boring.
Think again…medical mysteries, real life spies killing each other with u Breslau, stealth bombers… all this and more is covered in this fascinating book ( )

I read this immediately after finishing a natural history of flowers. In my review of the flowers book, I complained that the author wandered far afield of his topic (no pun intended) and that it struck me as poorly organized. This book also wanders far afield of its topic, but is well-organized and (to my mind) better written altogether. Hanson brings mild humor and personal anecdotes along with his science. It was a wonderful book.
[Audiobook note: Mark Vietor is great, as always.] ( )

This is an examination of seeds: what they do, how they work, how they have evolved over the years. The title would lead one to believe that it is also a work of natural history about how human history has been changed by seeds, but Hanson fails to tell a coherent story, so his infrequent digressions into history feel like tangents that he put in just to fill up space.

A lot of popular science books suffer because authors put in a lot of personal information, trying to shape their science into a personal story. Sometimes this succeeds, but usually it fails, and this book is an example of the latter. I didn't learn a whole lot about seeds, and I really didn't care about the author's toddler. ( )

Un libro muy accesible y ameno que nos da un esbozo de lo que son las semillas y su importancia en el desarrollo de la humanidad, no sólo desde el punto de vista biológico, sino también económico, social y un amplio etcétera que difícilmente sospechamos cuando nos servimos por la mañana cereal o vamos al mercado a reabastecer nuestras despensas de distintas semillas. ( )

Seeds feed and clothe us. They're everywhere, and we are utterly dependent upon them. In The Triumph of Seeds, Thor Hanson explores seeds’ capacity to travel through space and time, completely irresistible while still maintaining strong personal defences

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