Divining Hand:: The 500 year-old Mystery of Dowsing Book By Christopher Bird

Christopher Bird, co-author of The Secret Life of Plants, presents a broad study of dowsing: searching with a handheld forked stick or pendulum for water, minerals, buried pipes and cables, lost objects or missing people. He traces the history of the practice in many parts of the world.

Documented accounts are illustrated with photographs and diagrams, and the book discusses the theories proposed to explain dowsing. It is a history and survey of a contested practice, not a guarantee that dowsing can locate anything reliably.