Seeds of Change: Five Plants That Transformed Mankind

Blurb

Seeds of Change: Five plants that transformed mankind is a 1985 book by Henry Hobhouse, formerly a journalist for The Economist, News Chronicle, Daily Express, and the Wall Street Journal, consultant to the Quincentenary of Columbus Exhibition, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, and Chairman of the Rerstmoceux Science Centre. Seeds of change attempts to give an insight on how mankind's discovery, usage and trade of sugar, tea, cotton, the potato, and quinine have influenced history to make the world that we know. In the second edition of the book, Seeds of Change: Six plants that transformed mankind, he adds the coca plant to the list.