Andy Warner's Oddball Histories: Spices and Spuds by Andy Warner
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. Andy Warner sifts through the roots and leaves of our long, complicated history with the earth's original green resources in this hilarious, fact-filled follow-up to Andy Warner's Oddball Histories: Pests and Pets.Andy Warner is the author of Short Histories of Ordinary Things (Picador, 2016), which was a New York Times best-seller. Slate, Fusion, American Public Media, The Nib, Symbolia, Medium, KQED, popsci.com, Years of Living Dangerously on Showtime Network, IDEO.org, The Center for Constitutional Rights, UNHCR, UNRWA, UNICEF, and Buzzfeed have all published his comics. He has taught cartooning at Stanford University, California College of the Arts, and the Animation Workshop in Denmark, and is a contributing editor at The Nib. He's from the sea and makes comics in a garden shed in San Francisco.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780316498265 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316498262 |
| Title | Andy Warner's Oddball Histories: Spices and Spuds |
| Author | Andy Warner |
| Series | Andy Warner's Oddball Histories Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown & Company |
| Year published | 2024-11-05 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |