The Secret Life of Plants

Peter Tompkins

HarperCollins, Mar 8, 1989 - Nature - 416 pages

The world of plants and its relation to mankind as revealed by the latest scientific discoveries. "Plenty of hard facts and astounding scientific and practical lore."--Newsweek

About the author

Peter Tompkins is the author with Christopher Bird, of the phenomenal bestseller The Secret Life of Plants. His other books include The Secrets of the Great Pyramid and Secrets of the Soul.

Christopher Bird was a writer best known for his books The Secret Life of Plants and The Divining Hand: The 500-Year-Old Mystery of Dowsing. He served in the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1950s. Fluent in French and Russian, Mr. Bird was an editor of the Gallatin Annual of International Business and a correspondent for Time Magazine in Yugoslavia.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Secret Life of Plants
• Author: Peter Tompkins
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: HarperCollins, 1989
• ISBN: 0060915870, 9780060915872
• Length: 416 pages
• Subjects: Nature / General