A review by shaytype
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History by Thor Hanson

3.0

The tales of science and interspecies relationships (including between scientist and seed) were exciting. However, I was often distracted by the white/Eurocentric viewpoint the author used while writing about historical events, which I feel did a disservice to the story being told. Slavery was hardly mentioned in the chapter about cotton, Columbus was a heroic explorer, and the damage caused extraction of seeds and plants was celebrated throughout the text as economic success.