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The Private Life of Plants - a natural history of plant behaviour (1995)
Front Cover Book Details
Author
David Attenborough
Princeton University Press
Attenborough
Genre Scientific
Subject Plants
Publication Date 8/21/1995
Format Hardcover (257 x 184 mm)
Publisher Princeton University Press
Language eng
Extras Dust Jacket
Plot
Based on the immensely popular six-part BBC program that will air in the United States during the fall of 1995, this book offers what writer/filmmaker David Attenborough is best known for delivering: an intimate view of the natural world wherein a multitude of miniature dramas unfold. In the program and book, both titled The Private Life of Plants, Attenborough treks through rainforests, mountain ranges, deserts, beaches, and home gardens to show us things we might never have suspected about the vegetation that surrounds us. With their extraordinary sensibility, plants compete endlessly for survival and interact with animals and insects: they can see, count, communicate, adjust position, strike, and capture. Attenborough makes the plant world a vivid place for readers, who in this book can enjoy the tour at their own pace, taking in the lively descriptions and nearly 300 full-color photos showing plants in close detail. The author reveals to us the aspects of plants' lives that seem hidden from view, such as fighting, avoiding or exploiting predators or neighbors, and struggling to find food, increase their territories, reproduce themselves, and establish their place in the sun. Among the most amazing examples, the acacia can communicate with other acacias and repel enemies that might eat their leaves, the orchid can impersonate female wasps to attract males and ensure the spreading of its pollen, the Venus's flytrap can take other organisms captive and consume them. Covering this remarkable range of information with enthusiasm and clarity, Attenborough helps us to look anew at the vegetation on which all life depends and which has an intriguing life of its own. He has created a book sure to please the plant lover and any other reader interested in exploring the natural world.
Personal Details
Collection Status In Collection
Index 24
Read It Yes
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Product Details
LoC Classification QK50.A77 1995
Dewey 581.5 20
ISBN 0691006393
Paper Type cloth : alk. paper
Cover Price $31.95
Nr of Pages 320
First Edition No
Rare No
Notes
Includes index.