Living Planet: A new, fully updated edition of David Attenborough’s seminal portrait of life on Earth

Product Information

The encapsulation in print of Attenborough's 'Life' series, produced with the BBC over thirty-odd years and arguably the most outstanding and influential natural history broadcasts of all time. Further south, the warmer climate sees the pine trees give way to broad-leaved species, such as the oak and beech.

It examines the manner in which the survivors of ancient groups as well as the representatives of newly-evolved ones have together colonised and adapted to the great variety of environments that exist on earth. Every day, throughout the summer, trains of mules plod up the winding stony tracks, red horsehair plumes bobbing on their withers, red pompoms on long strings swinging from their pack saddles, carrying huge loads of barley and buckwheat, tea and cloth, up to Tibet to be traded for bales of wool and cakes of salt. But the grazing is so poor that it can only sustain a very small number of individual animals, and those species that do manage to survive here are all scarce. To access you ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. By the time you have trudged up to 2500 metres, the rhododendrons, in their turn, have disappeared except for a few patches on sheltered slopes.

This is used by some for drinking, or, as in the case of the poison dart frog, for depositing tadpoles. Signed and inscribed by the author to half-title in the year of publication: "To Martine with best wishes David Attenborough Christmas 1984". Tibet, which before the collision of the continents had been a well-watered plain along the southern edge of Asia, was not only pushed upwards but gradually deprived of its rainfall by the young mountains and so changed into the high cold desert that it is today; the upper reaches of the Kali Gandaki lost much of the rain that had given the river its initial erosive power and shrank inside its vast valley; and on the site of the ancient sea there now stood the highest and newest mountains in the world containing, within their fabric, the remains of ammonites.

If, as well as such alarms, you also find yourself fighting for breath because of unseen, unsmelt poisonous gas, you will be wise to go no further.

It has a vast population of sooty terns, which enjoy a degree of protection from predators that is unavailable on the mainland. Fine in fine dustjacket, protected by an archival quality, removable, transparent, inert jacket protector.

It worms and wriggles its way downwards through the giant interlocking buttresses as the mountains on either side of it grow higher and higher. Africa's mountains are permanently snow-covered, and beneath peaks such as Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, there are unique communities of plants and animals. How this came about was, until the middle of the 20th century, the subject of great controversy among geologists and geographers. An LP of Elizabeth Parker's score for the series, entitled The Living Planet - Music from the BBC TV Series was released in 1984. It is such activity, known as plate tectonics, from deep within the Earth that pulled apart Africa and South America and created the Atlantic Ocean.It is the nature of these adaptations, that have enabled living organisms to spread so widely through our varied planet, that is the theme of this book. First Edition thus, with very numerous full-page coloured photographs throughout; original pictorial boards, black cloth back, backstrip lettered in white, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Fully updated new version of the first of Attenborough's unparalleled 'Life' sequence of surveys of the world's natural history, published to complement his unique BBC television series broadcast over thirty years. The chain is more continuous than most maps show, for other volcanoes are erupting below the surface of the sea. The series consists of twelve episodes which explain how the Earth works and how living organisms survive and thrive in different environments.

By contrast, because of its connection to more temperate regions, the Arctic has been colonised by a large variety of species. The African plains have a greater variety and bigger concentration of grass-living animals than any other. Walking over the corded, blistered surface, you can see in the cracks that, only a few inches beneath, it is still red hot. Large format paperback(two small scratches and nick on the edges of the cover and spine) in fine condition. The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the UK from 19 January 1984.khaki brown original cloth boards, lettered in gilt to the spine, with the original dust jacket, 320pp; A very good copy, the book with light handling wear. This leads to a similar abundance of predators, and the Merle people ambush white-eared kob as they cross a river. Broadcast 12 April 1984, the final instalment surveys those environments that have been created by and for humans. Accompanying the BBC television series of the same name, this book examines how life has adapted to survive in every environment on earth.