{"product_id":"how-flowers-made-our-world-hardcover","title":"How Flowers Made Our World (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRE-ORDER NOW! The estimated release date is 25 June 2026. Please note your complete order will only ship once the Pre-Order item becomes available.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA NEW SCIENTIST BEST NEW POPULAR SCIENCE BOOK MARCH 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow Flowers Made Our World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, biologist David George Haskell redefines our understanding of flowers, casting them as powerful revolutionaries at the heart of Earth's story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Flowering plants as you've never seen them before ... Science writing with sensuality, sensitivity and soul.'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e― Cal Flyn, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIslands of Abandonment\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eVividly written.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDavid George Haskell shows how the most trivialized part of the natural world is among its most powerful and essential.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ― Rebecca Solnit, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOrwell’s Roses\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDavid George Haskell's great strength as a writer is that he is open to surprise. He regards the planet as a strange and beautiful place.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHow Flowers Made Our World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis at once closely observed, richly reported, and mind-blowing.'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e― Elizabeth Kolbert, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Sixth Extinction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFar from being mere ornaments, flowers have shaped the very fabric of life on our planet. Their evolution triggered a cascade of biodiversity, transforming oceans, creating new habitats, and even altering the climate. Their beauty turned adversaries into allies, and their adaptability turned environmental upheavals into opportunities for renewal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeaving together vivid storytelling, lyrical writing, and cutting-edge science, Haskell illuminates flowers as portals into deep time and essential players in our ecological future. He reveals how flowers built and sustained ecosystems from rainforests to prairies and have been pivotal in the evolution of species like butterflies, bees, and birds. He also uncovers their crucial role in human history, as cultural emblems, keys to scientific leaps, and evolutionary catalysts, with flowering grasses calling our ancestors to leave the trees, laying the foundation for agriculture and modern civilization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom lessons in resilience and creativity found among gardeners’ favourites, such as magnolias, orchids, and roses, to rediscovering lesser-known wonders, like our uncelebrated underwater meadows that sustain life and the secrets of our most humble wildflowers, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow Flowers Made Our World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e invites readers to see these blooms in a whole new light―as the dynamic and influential forces they truly are.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David George Haskell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47484347154610,"sku":"9781911709985","price":527.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9781911709985.jpg?v=1780567768","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/how-flowers-made-our-world-hardcover","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}