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A review by jenmooremo
The Plant Hunter: A Scientist's Quest for Nature's Next Medicines by Cassandra Leah Quave
4.0
Full disclosure: I won this book in a Goodreads Giveaway and enter them frequently to help expand my reading and stock my Little Free Library outside my home. I do not especially enjoy science, but do love plants and memoirs, but was worried I wouldn’t like this book, so it sat for awhile. Then I heard Dr Quave on The People’s Pharmacy one morning and decided it was time.
What happened? I loved the book, but find it hard to describe. Is it a story of a strong woman with a determination to study and ask the big questions? One about a disabled individual who found a way to do what she loved? A confident woman who figured out at every roadblock how to move her career forward and still have the family she desired? (FYI-it helps immensely to have a supportive partner.) I think the book is all that and more. There’s adventure and science, but science explained where we can all understand. Recommend this to a young person who needs to see others succeed, someone who loves plants and gardening for a new awareness of the plants around them (and beyond) and that girl/woman who needs to overcome any doubts that she too belongs in science.
What happened? I loved the book, but find it hard to describe. Is it a story of a strong woman with a determination to study and ask the big questions? One about a disabled individual who found a way to do what she loved? A confident woman who figured out at every roadblock how to move her career forward and still have the family she desired? (FYI-it helps immensely to have a supportive partner.) I think the book is all that and more. There’s adventure and science, but science explained where we can all understand. Recommend this to a young person who needs to see others succeed, someone who loves plants and gardening for a new awareness of the plants around them (and beyond) and that girl/woman who needs to overcome any doubts that she too belongs in science.