A short read about the movement and proliferation of plant life. For such a slim volume, there was a lot of explanation on the human history side of the story and little on the science part of the subject. The majority of the scientific content seemed to be relegated to using the formal, Latin terminology for each species discussed.

It also seemed to both glorify and denounce colonization, depending on the chapter, rather than a more neutral take, or within a framework of the negative outcomes of humanity's impact on the planet.

Mancuso makes the same mistake a lot of popular science authors make and assigns human-like motivations and personalities to plant behavior and evolutionary patterns. It was fine in the beginning but began to grate towards the end.

I listened to the audiobook, so perhaps the illustrations in a hard copy would have been valuable.