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

by Andy Warner (Author)

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

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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A concise overview of a complex and fascinating history presented in a digestible visual medium.

Andy Warner
Andy Warner is the New York Times bestselling author of Brief Histories of Everyday Objects and This Land is My Land. He is a contributing editor at The Nib and teaches cartooning at Stanford University and the Animation Workshop in Denmark. His comics have been published by Slate, Fusion, American Public Media, popsci.com, KQED, IDEO, The Center for Constitutional Rights, UNHCR, UNRWA, UNICEF, and Buzzfeed. He was a recipient of the 2018 Berkeley Civic Arts Grant and the 2019 Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park Artist in Residence. He works in a garret room in South Berkeley and comes from the sea.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780316498272
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Little, Brown Ink
Publication date
November 05, 2024
Series
Andy Warner's Oddball Histories
BISAC categories
JNF037030 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Flowers & Plants
JNF062030 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | Science & Nature
Library of Congress categories
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