Description: Eating the Sun is the fascinating story of the most everyday miracle: photosynthesis. Wherever there is greenery, photosynthesis is working to make oxygen, energy, and organic matter from the raw materials of sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide. Though this process is rarely given much thought and few truly understand the beautifully honed mechanisms that make it possible, without photosynthesis, there would be no food to eat or air to breathe. A celebration of how the smallest things-enzymes and pigments-influence the largest things-the oceans and fossil fuel economy-Eating the Sun shows how understanding photosynthesis is not only the key to the earth's history, it is also vital to confronting the current climate crisis. "Everything you could possibly want from a popular-science book. There is wonder here and intellectual excitement, clear explanation and lyrical writing; and much new insight into how the world works."-The Independent (London)

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