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lsparrow's review against another edition
3.0
interesting discussions of plants and their movement.
wanting a bit more.
wanting a bit more.
regoddard99's review against another edition
funny
informative
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
jemoutrageous's review against another edition
5.0
As a geographer, I thoroughly enjoyed the stories of plant journeys in this book and the author’s clear and humorous understanding of his likely scientific audience members. I enjoyed looking up each of the species, and familiarizing myself with them.
_drewbie_'s review against another edition
3.0
informative, but very western/colonialism centered. personally did not enjoy all the pop culture references sprinkled throughout.
ketevanreads's review against another edition
2.0
A short read about the movement and proliferation of plant life. For such a slim volume, there was a lot of explanation on the human history side of the story and little on the science part of the subject. The majority of the scientific content seemed to be relegated to using the formal, Latin terminology for each species discussed.
It also seemed to both glorify and denounce colonization, depending on the chapter, rather than a more neutral take, or within a framework of the negative outcomes of humanity's impact on the planet.
Mancuso makes the same mistake a lot of popular science authors make and assigns human-like motivations and personalities to plant behavior and evolutionary patterns. It was fine in the beginning but began to grate towards the end.
I listened to the audiobook, so perhaps the illustrations in a hard copy would have been valuable.
It also seemed to both glorify and denounce colonization, depending on the chapter, rather than a more neutral take, or within a framework of the negative outcomes of humanity's impact on the planet.
Mancuso makes the same mistake a lot of popular science authors make and assigns human-like motivations and personalities to plant behavior and evolutionary patterns. It was fine in the beginning but began to grate towards the end.
I listened to the audiobook, so perhaps the illustrations in a hard copy would have been valuable.
blarsen2's review against another edition
4.0
How plants have moved around the world and why they do it. It was a quick read and included a lot of fun facts and short anecdotes throughout history.
rsaguilar's review against another edition
3.0
Plants that survived nuclear bombs, EXPLODING plants, and other cool factoids.
Fun, little book with quirky stories and history insights by someone who is obviously passionate about plants.
I feel I would have enjoyed more with physical book but library only had audiobook.
Fun, little book with quirky stories and history insights by someone who is obviously passionate about plants.
I feel I would have enjoyed more with physical book but library only had audiobook.
turrean's review against another edition
3.0
Like other reviewers I wonder if the focus on plants spread by European colonizers was because of the availability of information sources, or relative recency, or because this path was more likely or common than spread by other human endeavors.