John Farndon
Plants
Hardcover
(Grolier March 15, 2000)
If you are hungry for facts, this is the perfect database. If you like your information served up in bite-size pieces, you will feast on '1000 Things You Should Know'. There are 100 illustrated topic panels on plants and each panel contains 10 key facts. Facts such as: . Every year the world uses three billion cubic meters of wood--a pile as big as a football stadium and as high as Mt Everest. . Legend says Ethiopian goatherds discovered coffee when they saw their goats staying awake all night after eating the berries of the coffee plant. . The juice of a pitcher plant will dissolve a chunk of steak to nothing in a few days. Now discover the other 997 facts in '1000 Things You Should Know About Plants'.
- Series
- 1000 things you should know about
- ISBN
- 1902947746 / 9781902947747
- Pages
- 61
- Weight
- 22.4 oz.
- Dimensions
- 11.9 x 9.2
in.