Spices and spuds : how plants made our world
Warner, Andy2024
Book
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.
Main title:
Spices and spuds : how plants made our world / Andy Warner.
Author:
Warner, Andy, author, illustrator
Imprint:
New York : Little, Brown Young Readers, 2024.
Collation:
248 pages : chiefly illustrations.
Series title:
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Juvenile.
ISBN:
9780316498272 (pbk)
Dewey class:
630J580
Language:
English
Subject:
Plants and civilization -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile literatureBotany, Economic -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile literatureAgriculture and state -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile literatureNon-Fiction 7+Nature, Earth and EnvironmentEuropean comic books: general, classic, all agesChildren's / Teenage: general interestChildren's / Teenage general interest: History & the pastChildren's / Teenage general interest: Nature & animalsChildren's / Teenage general interest: Science & technology: gen
BRN:
1599737