- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: BBC Books; First Edition edition (8 Dec 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0563370238
- ISBN-13: 978-0563370239
- Product Dimensions: 25 x 17.8 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 149,287 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The Private Life of Plants has already been viewed by 60 million Britons....And they stayed riveted for...five weeks to watch plants digest mice alive, strangle their hosts, trick male bees into copulating with their flowers, or ignite forest fires with chemicals to give their seedlings a better start in life. Vivid lives of hectic, electrifying action emerged, and even the hundreds of botanists consulted for the series found themselves gaining new insights into plant behavior.
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Accompanying a David Attenborough series on BBC Television, and with the aid of time-lapse photography, this book reveals hidden events and phenomena of plant-life throughout the world.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
An excellent book, detailing the wonder of the plant kingdom and the different adaptations made to be the species which not only survives but thrives. The pictures are beautiful and clear. Buy the video too - the narration and time lapse photography are both excellent.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I am not a typical planty person and so after recieving this book as a present, I was not sure if I'd appreciate it. How wrong I was, it deals with many aspects of plants, such as there need to reproduce, to travel, to feed etc. But it looks at them as if they were an animal in there hunger to survive. Altogether an exceptional read, offering a beautiful way to understand plants.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is such an awesome book, as equally awespome as the series that it accompanies.
It was the series that got me into plants, openning my eyes to just how amazing plants really are.
This book is a wonderfully interesting and educating read on it's own, but I do highly recomend watching the TV series as well as reading the book.
The language is wonderfully accessable, with out being overly simple. David Attenborough is a wonderful teacher and writer.
It was the series that got me into plants, openning my eyes to just how amazing plants really are.
This book is a wonderfully interesting and educating read on it's own, but I do highly recomend watching the TV series as well as reading the book.
The language is wonderfully accessable, with out being overly simple. David Attenborough is a wonderful teacher and writer.
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A surprisingly dynamic insight into the world of plants
David Attenborough makes the point right at the start of The Private Life of Plants that plants aren't boring, they just live on a different timescale than us humans. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Bill
Private Life of Plants
Here is yet another example of Attenborough's unique skill of communicating information to us in a truly comprehensible fashion. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Calum
Another Attenborough classic
I saw the series on the television, and must admit was a little unsure if I had done the right thing buying the book after seeing it on the TV. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mr R. Cassley
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This is the authors first "Life Of" books and sets a pattern for those that followed.
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