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Original Title:	The Private Life of Plants
ISBN:	0691006393 (ISBN13: 9780691006390)
Edition Language:	English

The Private Life of Plants: A Natural History of Plant Behaviour

David Attenborough

Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 4.41 | 563 Users | 46 Reviews

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Title	:	The Private Life of Plants: A Natural History of Plant Behaviour
Author	:	David Attenborough
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	September 10th 1995 by Princeton University Press (first published 1994)
Categories	:	Science. Nonfiction. Environment. Nature. Biology. Plants. Natural History

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Based on the immensely popular six-part BBC program that aired 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.

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The book is absolutely fantastic and full of high quality photographs. I would undoubtedly give it five stars if it weren't for the Polish edition that I have read, which is more sloppy that I would ever expect. The text contains very basic punctuation mistakes (I would guess that the punctuation form the English original has been preserved) and occasional grammar errors.

Do you want to discover what plants are capable of? Read this book. Attenborough has a knack for presenting dry scientific facts ina very entertaining and fascinating way. There are things about plants wou would have never imagined!!

Unlike the documentary, this book requires imagination. But as a book, this encyclopedia is closer to a story book than an actual encyclopedia. It is just facts, but the way Sir David Attenborough wrote the book; it more or less resembles a story book, with the seemingly most boring of life actually more closer to warfare, than just waiting. My favorite part was the beginning, when the movement of plants was being explained. That really opened my eye to the movement of simplistic plants.

Excellent book, just as fun to read as it was to watch the series. I highly recommend this book to any plant lover.



The quiet force with which plants rule the world is a lesson in solemn dignity for a shit-slinging ape like myself. I would also happily live the rest of my days as Sir David Attenborough's idiot child, clinging to his knees and gazing at him with drooly rapture. Tell me again about the strangler fig, papa...

Easily one of the best books I've ever read. Intelligent and informative, and best of all, I can hear Attenborough's beautiful voice in every word.