Browse by category
A Life On Our Planet by David Attenborough
Category: Science
See the world. Then make it better. 'I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us ...Show more
A Life on Our Planet - My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
Category: Science
See the world. Then make it better. 'I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us ...Show more
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
Category: Science
*Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science & Technology Book of the Year* In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future. See the ...Show more
Adventures of a Young Naturalist: SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH'S ZOO QUEST EXPEDITIONS by David Attenborough
Category: Biography
Living legend and presenter of BBC's Planet Earth series Sir David Attenborough tells the story of his early career as a broadcaster and a naturalist in his own words. In 1954, David Attenborough, a young television presenter, was offered the opportunity of a lifetime--to travel the world finding rare a ...Show more
Amazing Rare Things by Sir David Attenborough
Category: No Category
The book focuses on an exquisite selection of natural history drawings and watercolors by Leonardo da Vinci, Alexander Marshal, Maria Sibylla Merian, and Mark Catesby, and from the collection of Cassiano dal PozzoâÂÂworks all held in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle. Attenborough and his coauthors ...Show more
Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery by David Attenborough; Susan Owens; Martin Clayton; Rea Alexandratos
Category: No Category
From the fifteenth century onwards, as European explorers sailed forth on grand voyages of discovery, their encounters with exotic plants and animals fanned intense scientific interest. Scholars began to examine nature with fresh eyes, and pioneering artists transformed the way nature was seen and under ...Show more
An Eye for Nature: The Life and Art of William T. Cooper by Penny Olsen; David Attenborough (Foreword by)
Category: No Category
In the work of artist William T.Cooper, platypuses swim in green underwater worlds, waves throw up blankets of spray, embers glow in the aftermath of a bushfire, a Thylacine emerges from the shadows, sniffing the air. But it is his paintings of birds which set Cooper apart-his raucous cockatoos, colourf ...Show more
David Attenborough: The Early Years by Sir David Attenborough
Category: No Category
David Attenborough's books and broadcasts have opened the incredible world of natural history to millions of viewers and listeners. "Zoo Quest for a Dragon" takes us back to one of his earliest projects, when the BBC and London Zoo joined forces on several animal-collecting expeditions. "Quest in Paradi ...Show more
David Attenborough in His Own Words by Sir David Attenborough
Category: No Category
An audio portrait of Sir David Attenborough, Britain's best-known natural history film-maker. Here he discusses his life and achievements in this collection of BBC radio and TV interviews: Parkinson (broadcast on BBC One, 20th December 1975, featuring Michael Parkinson), Profile (broadcast on BBC Radio ...Show more
David Attenborough's First Life: A Journey Back in Time with Matt Kaplan by Sir David Attenborough
Category: No Category
The epic story of the beginning of life on Earth from the much loved and respected naturalist, writer and broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough. Spanning billions of years, First Life reveals the extraordinary story of the evolution of the first life on Earth and how it then evolved into multicellular lif ...Show more
Drawn from Paradise The Discovery, Art and Natural History of the Birds of Paradise by Sir David Attenborough
Category: No Category
Drawn from Paradise is David Attenborough's journey through the cultural history of the birds of paradise, one of the most exquisite and extravagant, colourful and intriguing families of birds. From the moment they were introduced to the European mind in the early sixteenth century, their unique beauty ...Show more
Journeys to the Other Side of the World by David Attenborough
Category: No Category
'a wondrous reminder of Attenborough's pioneering role . . . full of delightful tales' Daily Express 'An adventure that sparked a lifetime's commitment to the planet' The Lady Following the success of the original Zoo Quest expeditions, in the late 1950s onwards the young David Attenborough embarked on ...Show more