A review by elee2013
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History by Thor Hanson

4.0

3.5/5

Reading other reviews, people found this book very engaging and inspiring… and I did think it was well written. Perfect balance of science and layman’s language, with some framework of history and the author’s own personal life, both his home life and his own research. But I don’t know how much I’m walking away with personally — I equally feel like I wish I had learned MORE, and that I have no desire to go find out more. Dilemma, eh? The fun parts of this book were the conversation starters — the stealth bomber being modeled off a seed, capsaicin as a defense against fungus, cotton floating across the ocean twice, ricin as the most lethal poison.