Written by the Eden Team, this book takes the exhibits - cotton, coffee, tea, rubber, cola, chicle, chocolate, and many more - as its starting point for a narrative combining history, botany, horticulture and global politics to follow the story of the world's crucial plants. But like the Eden Project, the book is not just about plants. It is about sustainability, about bringing industrial landscapes back from the dead, about living at one with Nature at a time of ecological danger.