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The Private Life of Plants
by Sir David Attenborough
Product Group: Book
Publisher: BBC Books (1994-12-08)
ISBN: 0563370238
EAN: 9780563370239
Dewy Decimal #: 580
Hardcover: 95 pages
SKU: 071129020
Condition: Collectible: Very Go
Comments: This Signed, (October 1995) inscription copy is in excellent condition. No visible markings, highlights, underlining, tears. Tight text and spine. Clean Hard Cover. Dust Jacket has a tiny slit on the front Jacket. Beautiful, glossy photos. Light shelf/edge wear. Remarkable copy, worth having, at an affordable price. (L 77)
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
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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Customer Reviews
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inexplicably magical
Rating  (5)
Date: 2005-04-30
9 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
Although I could never be bored watching "The Private Life of Plants" over and over, I bought the book on a sale table, not expecting much. I was, however, absorbed in it that evening, reading and poring over pictures of plants I'd never seen. The next day I was walking along a watercourse that had recently been in flood. Hanging from a bit of log was the 'skeleton' of a fungi that I would have never recognised, had I not stared at the picture in wonder the night before, as something simply extraordinary.
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Big picture botany
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-12-29
14 out of 14 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book presents an overview of many areas of botany. The book is written in an informal style for the general reader rather than specialists or university students. Nevertheless, it contains a wealth of facts and information about hundreds, if not thousands of plant species. What I especially liked about the book is that it doesn't get bogged down in details when discussing topics such as seed dispersal or pollination. Instead, Attenborough has done an admirable job of explaining the issues in very clear language. He also provides numerous examples and anecdotes, along with several full color photos on every page. The photos certainly make this book a fine volume for the coffee table. As an aside, Attenborough is a British author, so some of his examples are of British or European plants that Americans may not be familiar with. At times, Attenborough's almost anti-academic style can also go a little overboard, such as when he rejects the standard practice of italicizing Latin species names. Nevertheless, the book is quite well written, and will be of interest to anyone who likes plants or photography. It could also serve as a science resource for home schoolers.
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Brill
Rating (5)
Date: 2001-03-30
0 out of 10 customers found this reveiw helpful
A fantastic book which brings plants alive
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Interesting and fascinating book of an fore me unknow world
Rating (5)
Date: 1998-08-11
5 out of 15 customers found this reveiw helpful
David Attenborough describes the interesting life of plants in a very interesting way, and that makes the book to my number one. He is telling us about the evolution and how it developed the plants, how it have given the spicies such spectacular behaviors, behaviors most of us didn't know about.
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