Big Bad Book of Botany-Michael Largo with Scott Cluthe on P I Radio

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Michael Largo joins Scott Cluthe to talk about his latest
book.  David Attenborough meets Lemony Snicket in The Big Bad
Book of Botany, Michael Largo’s entertaining and enlightening
one-of-a-kind compendium of the world’s most amazing and bizarre
plants, their history, and their lore. The Big, Bad Book of Botany
introduces a world of wild, wonderful, and weird plants. Some are
so rare, they were once more valuable than gold. Some found in
ancient mythology hold magical abilities, including the power to
turn a person to stone. Others have been used by assassins to kill
kings, and sorcerers to revive the dead. Here, too, is vegetation
with astonishing properties to cure and heal, many of which have
long since been lost with the advent of modern medicine. Organized
alphabetically, The Big, Bad Book of Botany combines the latest in
biological information with bizarre facts about the plant kingdom’s
oddest members, including a species that is more poisonous than a
cobra and a prehistoric plant that actually “walked.” Largo takes
you through the history of vegetables and fruits and their
astonishing agricultural evolution. Throughout, he reveals
astonishing facts, from where the world’s first tree grew to
whether plants are telepathic. Featuring more than 150 photographs
and illustrations, The Big, Bad Book of Botany is a fascinating,
fun A-to-Z encyclopedia for all ages that will transform the way we
look at the natural world.