A powerful book from a pair of specialists, informed by world travels and international comparisons.

Erik Orsenna and Julien Denormandie share a mutual passion for agriculture, the mother than feeds all human society, and a witness to diverse civilizations who have engaged in it or still do so now. As a treasure of history, it provides a wonderful subject for study and a foundation for impassioned reflection on the contradictions that typify the relations of today's humans with what feeds them.
This brief and literary overview smacks of a manifesto for a reconciliation between our society and the many faces of agriculture, today held in such little regard.