{"product_id":"this-is-your-mind-on-plants-9780141997339","title":"This Is Your Mind On Plants","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePollan is always an entertaining writer, and a deep thinker with a light touch ... it's a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering. -- Sophie McBain * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eThis fascinating insight into our relationship with mind-altering plants weaves personal experimentation with cultural history ...  Pollan is the perfect guide through this sometimes controversial territory; curious, careful and, as his book progresses, increasingly open minded. -- Tim Adams * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eExpert storytelling ...\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ePollan masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in new ways. -- Rob Dunn * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant, compulsively readable ... Pollan's storytelling is deft, forthright and fascinating. -- Charles Foster * The Oldie *\u003cbr\u003eLike it or not, we are undergoing a drugs revolution ... thankfully Pollan is here to guide us through this putative challenge ... [this] relatable, middle class New York plant fancier might be the ideal standard bearer for today's calmer, more scientific approach to the subject. -- Josh Glancy * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003ePollan's intertwining of reportage, citizen science and historical scholarship is a delightful and informative read ... [he] has a rational optimism that might tempt even the most sober and sceptical to try to broaden their horizons. -- AJ Lees * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003ePollan is a gentle, generous writer. -- David Aaronovitch * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eMichael Pollan weaves tales of drug experimentation into a historical account of our long relationship with them. -- Simon Ings * New Scientist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Is Your Mind on Plants\u003c\/i\u003e is witty, entertaining and polite, but it is not trivial. Subtly but assuredly, Pollan argues that which plants (and fungi) we are allowed and how depends, consciously or otherwise, on the interests of power. -- Josh Raymond * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eThe descriptions of London's coffee house culture and Honoré de Balzac's barbarous habit of ingesting dry coffee grounds to fuel all-night scribbling sessions are worth the book's price alone \u003ci\u003e... \u003c\/i\u003eThe book is really about the relation between each plant and the humans who consume it, tackled in a non-judgmental and objective way that seeks to dispel the ignorance, prejudice and demonisation they attract. * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eFascinating and occasionally terrifying ... His opium chapter is mesmerising. -- Marcus Berkmann * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eA tour around three substances: caffeine, mescaline and opium. The first is legal, the others remain mostly illegal. Pollan offers us rich historical contexts for them that are often surprising\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Peter Carty * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eEvery now and then to be put in touch with what really matters - what could be more important than that? -- Emily Hourican * Irish Independent *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48066829123927,"sku":"9780141997339","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141997339.jpg?v=1713211712","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/this-is-your-mind-on-plants-9780141997339","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}