Grass
How One Plant Shaped Humanity, Our Landscapes and Our Future
$54.09
- Hardcover
400 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2027
Summary
A revelatory dive into the overlooked history of grass and the astonishing ways it has shaped our world
The story of grass is bigger than grass itself; it is the story of us and our place in the natural world. From creeping turf and towering bamboo, to rolling meadows, vast savannas and fields of wheat, grass is all around us. Yet despite its ubiquity, hardly any of us pay it much mind as we trample it underfoot every day. But what is perhaps the most overlooked plant…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035407866 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035407868 |
| Author: | Julia Rosen |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Headline Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 240mm |
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Julia Rosen
Julia Rosen is an award-winning journalist with nearly a decade of experience writing about humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and The Los Angeles Times.
Several of her stories have been selected for the Best American Science and Nature Writing anthologies. Notably, her features for The Atlantic on phosphorus and invasive earthworms received significant recognition. Her earthworm feature was The Atlantic’s most-read science story in 2020. More recently, her piece on the importance of grasslands, drawing on her extensive reporting, was highlighted as a must-read story and featured on NPR’s Short Wave podcast.
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