And there they are on the shelves, and we might imagine them as having conversations and informing one another against their will and otherwise finding ways to be active. Many tales are told within, and some might still inform the present. There are many ways to sort and group and array these entities, and whichever is chosen forecloses some associational possibilities. I opt to keep them moving, and to keep adding to the herd/hoard when new things come along that manifestly have connections to old things.
A list by date of publication (not necessarily of acquisition) offers the dimension of an unfolding wave of influence in one direction and a synoptic look back at past states-of-the-art in the other.
Economic Annuals and Human Cultures (Oakes Ames, 1939)======The History and Social Influence of the Potato (Redcliffe Salaman, 1949)
Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth (William L. Thomas et al., 1956)
Iban Agriculture: A Report on the Shifting Cultivation of Hill Rice by the Iban of Sarawak (Derek Freeman, 1957)
The changing face of New England (Betty Flanders Thomson, 1958)
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia (Clifford Geertz, 1963)
Tall Trees, Tough Men: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of Logging and Log-Driving in New England (Robert E Pike, 1967)
The Theory of Island Biogeography (Robert H.MacArthur and Edmund O. Wilson, 1967)
The Oxford Book of Food Plants (GB Masefield et al., 1969)
The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (Alfred Crosby, 1972)
A Plague of Corn: The Social History of Pellagra (Daphne A Roe, 1973)
Tropical Crops: Dicotyledons (JW Purseglove, 1974)
Tropical Crops: Monocotyledons (JW Purseglove, 1975)
The Pine Barrens (John McPhee, 1978)
Seventeenth Century North America (Carl Sauer, 1980)
The Human Impact: Man's Role in Environmental Change (Andrew Goudie, 1982)
A Long, Deep Furrow: Three Centuries of Farming in New England (Mark Lapping, 1982)
The Ecological Web: More on the Distribution and Abundance of Animals (HG Andrewartha and LC Birch, 1984)
In the Rainforest: Report from a Strange, Beautiful, Imperiled World
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Alfred W. Crosby, 1986)
A World in Crisis? (R Johnston and PJ Taylor, 1986)
The Rice Economies: Technology and Development in Asian Societies (Francesca Bray, 1986)
A Forest Journey: The Role of Wood in the Development of Civilization (John Perlin, 1989)
Changing the Face of the Earth: Culture, Environment, History (IG Simmons, 1989)
The Great Chile Book (Mark Miller, 1991)
Germs, Seeds and Animals: Studies in Ecological History (Alfred W. Crosby, 1994)
The Future of the Northern Forest (Christopher McGrory Klyza and Stephen C. Trombulak, 1994)
Farms to Forest: A Naturalist's Guide to the Ecology and Human History of Hopkins Memorial forest, Williamstown, Massachusetts (Dawn Biehler et al., 1995)
A history of the development of Rajang Basin in Sarawak (Fong Hon Kah, 1996)
Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape (Oliver Rackham, 1996)
The True History of Chocolate (Sophie D Coe and Michael D Coe, 1996)
Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England (Tom Wessels, 1997)
A Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Trees: Eastern United States and Canada, Including the Midwest (George Petrides, 1998)
Red Rubber, Bleeding Trees: Violence, Slavery, and Empire in Northwest Amazonia, 1850-1933 (Michael Edward Stanfield, 1998)
Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (JR McNeill, 2000)
History of the Countryside (Oliver Rackham, 2000)
The World According To Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth (Stuart Pimm, 2001)
The Botany of Desire (Michael Pollan, 2001)
The World of Caffeine: The Science and Culture of the World's Most Popular Drug (Bennett Alan Weinberg and Bonnie K Bealer, 2001)
The Interrupted Forest: A History of Maine's Wildlands (Neil Rolde, 2002)
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2003)
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (William Cronon, 2003)
A Land On Fire: The Environmental Consequences Of The Southeast Asian Boom (James Fahn, 2003)
Corn and Capitalism: How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global Dominance (Arturo Warman, 2003)
World Agriculture and the Environment: A Commodity-By-Commodity Guide To Impacts And Practices (Jason Clay, 2004)
The Path: A One-Mile Walk Through the Universe (Chet Raymo, 2004)
Our Vanishing Landscape (Eric Sloan, 2004)
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (Paul Stamets, 2005)
Trees: A Visual Guide (Tony Rodd and Jennifer Stackhouse, 2008)
Pepper: The Spice that Changed the World (Christine McFadden, 2008)
The Sibley Guide to Trees (David Allen Sibley, 2009)
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto (Stewart Brand, 2009)
...advocates not just a shift in habits, but also a fundamental, philosophical change toward stewardship of the planet... we have to learn how to manage the planet's global-scale natural infrastructure with as light a touch as possible and as much intervention as necessary..The Trees in My Forest (Bernd Heinrich, 2009)
A Landscape History of New England (Blake Harrison et al., 2011)
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Timothy Morton, 2013)
Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time (Beth Moon, 2014)
Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Sven Beckert, 20140
The Maya Forest Garden: Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands (Anabel Ford and Ronald Nigh, 2015)
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, 2015)
Landmarks (Robert Macfarlane, 2015)
Barkskins (Annie Proulx, 2016)
The Long, Long Life of Trees (Fiona Stafford, 2016)
Trees: A Complete Guide to Their Biology and Structure (Roland Ennos, 2016)
The Making Of The British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present (Nicolas Crane, 2016)
The Hidden Life of Trees (Peter Wohlleben 2016)
The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination (Richard Mabey, 2017)
The Overstory (Richard Powers, 2018)
Around the World in 80 Trees (Jonathan Drori, 2018)
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence (Michael Pollan, 2018)
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Merlin Sheldrake 2020)
Finding the Mother Tree (Suzanne Simard 2021)
Plant Teachers: Ayahuasca, Tobacco, and the Pursuit of Knowledge (Jeremy Narby and Rafael Chanchari Pizuri, 2021)
I've just begun to work with downloaded pdfs that have something to do with the Phytosphere, so this is just a heap awaiting my attention:
In the shadow of a pepper-centric historyHandbook of Herbs and Spices vol 1
Handbook of Herbs and Spices vol 2
Handbook of Herbs and Spices vol 3
Hand Book of Spices and Seasonings
An Entangled Bank: The Origins of Ecosystem Ecology (Joel B. Hagen, 1992)
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and a few web documents (many many more to incorporate):
The World Wood Web: How Fungi Supports Communication Between Plants (Paula Schmidt)The World Wood Web (BBC Science in Action video, 27 minutes)
The Secret Life of Trees (Christopher Lydon interviews Richard Powers)
Every Loss Reveals What We Are Made of: Blue Bananas, Why Autumn Leaves Change Color, and the Ongoing Mystery of Chlorophyll (Maria Popova, moments ago)
Transcript for Jeremy Narby on "The Cosmic Serpent"