A fascinating and insightful book destined to open the reader’s eyes to the true healing wisdom and 'magic' of plants. In the weaving of Eliot Cowan’s excellent storytelling, I was reminded of Stevie Wonder's Journey Through The Secret Life of Plants album from 1979. A strange connection to make, perhaps, but then Wonder’s departure from his string of previous melodic albums into creating The Secret Life of Plants was no less courageous an act then as Cowan’s is now in bringing his astonishing findings to print. As Malidoma Somé states (quote) on the rear cover of Cowan’s book,

“Cowan has charted the territory for a medicine of the past and the future and restores one of the vital links for this to happen - the healing power behind our relationship with the plant world."