The Secret Life of Plants

by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird

Allen Lane, 1974, ISBN 0713905948, lightly illustrated with black and white illustrations at chapter start, two-page illustrated title page, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, ex-library with stamps and stickers to front and back endpapers, tape residue on covers, price-clipped dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping, chipping, tears and creasing (see photographs)

“This book explores the world of plants and their relation to mankind as revealed by the latest discoveries of scientists of many disciplines.  It includes remarkable information about plants as lie detectors and plants as ecological sentinels; it describes their ability to adapt to human wishes, their response to music, their curative powers, and their ability to communicate with man.  It analyses experiments and theories from the past, many of them ignored or ridiculed, and it makes the startling suggestion that the most far-reaching revolution of the twentieth century – one that may save or destroy the planet – may come from the bottom of your garden.”