The Divining Hand by Christopher Bird

The Divining Hand by Christopher Bird

To dowse, says the author of this definitive study of the divining art, is to search with the aid of a handheld instrument such as a forked stick or a pendular bob on the end of a string - for anything: subterranean water flowing in a narrow underground fissure, a pool of oil or a vein of mineral ore, a buried sewer pipe or electrical cable, an airplane downed in a mountain wilderness, a disabled ship helplessly adrift in a gale, a lost wallet or dog, a missing person, perhaps a buried treasure. Co-author of The Secret Life of Plants, Christopher Bird has filled this book with exciting, documented stories, most of them illustrated with photographs and diagrams. It provides a complete history of the art of dowsing around the world and discusses in detail the various existing theories attempting to explain this extraordinary phenomenon.

Christopher Bird was a writer who wrote The Hidden Lives of Plants and The Divining Hand: The 500-Year-Old Mystery of Dowsing, among other works. In the 1950s, he worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. Bird was an editor of the Gallatin Annual of International Business and a correspondent for Time Magazine in Yugoslavia, and was fluent in French and Russian.

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ISBN 13	9780924608162
ISBN 10	0924608161
Title	The Divining Hand
Author	Christopher Bird
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Whitford Press,U.S.
Year published	1997-01-14
Number of pages	372
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