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12 reviews
Andrew Byatt, Alastair Fothergill, ...

BBC Books, 2001

"The Blue Planet - Seas of Life"!
The Blue Planet - Seas of Life is the companion book to the BBC documentary of the same name. As has been mentioned in earlier reviews, the photography is stunning. The book is very concise, easy to follow (although at times it can get a little technical) and really, just fun to read. Seeing as how it's the companion book to the series, it has a lot of shared information and is quite similar. ...

Life in Cold Blood

4 reviews
Sir David Attenborough

BBC Books, 2007

Marvels of life among the cold blooded.
Life in Cold Blood My admiration for this book stems from a mix of my ignorance of taxonomy and my perspective as a neurologist. This explains my inability to comment on any of the misspellings and errors detected by some of the other reviewers. With every book I read on comparative anatomy or evolutionary physiology, my erstwhile enthusiasm, rigid and fixed, for the human nervous system ...

Wild Borneo: The Wildlife and Scenery of Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalimantan

2 reviews
Nick Garbutt, Cede Prudente

The MIT Press, 2006

an excellent addition to an excellent series
Nick Garbutt's "Wild Borneo: the Wildlife and Scenery of Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan" is a wonderful addition to an existing seies for the lay reader and expert alike. This series, started by New Holland Press and continued by MIT, has volumes on "Wild ....." including Indonesia, India, New Zealand, South Africa and Thailand. All were done a half dozen years ago or so. Thus this ...

Green Inheritance

1 review
Anthony Huxley

Gaia Books Ltd, 2005

Any with an interest in botany, conservation or plant history must have GREEN INHERITANCE
If GREEN INHERITANCE: SAVING THE PLANTS OF THE WORLD sounds like a familiar topic, it's because it's a completely revised, expanded edition of the prior WWF BOOK OF PLANTS. Any with an interest in botany, conservation or plant history must have GREEN INHERITANCE: it explores many topics relating to plant issues and conservation, from the dwindling genetic base of the world's crops and the fading ...

David Attenborough: Life on Air

2 reviews
Sir David Attenborough

BBC Books, 2003

Travel the world with THE documentary presenter/producer/narrator of the natural world
While mentioning several highpoints in his childhood, David Attenborough's book mainly covers his working career upon graduation from university. Most people will be familiar with his animal and natural world documentaries from the late 80s onwards. I was surprised that he almost fell into the BBC and that he first started his involvement in natural history in the 1950s. He covers in great ...

The Private Life of Plants

4 reviews
Sir David Attenborough

BBC Books, 1994

Big picture botany
This book presents an overview of many areas of botany. The book is written in an informal style for the general reader rather than specialists or university students. Nevertheless, it contains a wealth of facts and information about hundreds, if not thousands of plant species. What I especially liked about the book is that it doesn't get bogged down in details when discussing topics such as ...

Gabriele Koch (Pottery Monographs)
Gabriele Koch

Alphabet and Image Ltd, 2002

Wild Fruit : Photographs by the 1st Earl of Snowdon

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1997

The Life of Mammals

8 reviews
Sir David Attenborough

BBC Books, 2002

Beautiful Photos, Engaging Read
I read this book cover-to-cover in about 6 hours. The text is easy to read, though I do admit I had to make a short list of words to look up in the dictionary (and I'm an English major and a professional editor. Gasp!). The text is also extremely engaging. As I read "Life of Mammals," I found myself stopping to share bits and pieces of what Attenborough wrote with various family members, ...

Life of Birds

25 reviews
Sir David Attenborough

London Bridge, 1998

A Joy to Look At; Fascinating Read
LIFE OF BIRDS is a gorgeous journey into the evolution, behavior, and unique characteristics of hundreds of species of birds, varying from Antarctic-dwelling Emperor Penguins to amazing little hummingbirds (and everything in between). The photos are striking, and almost all the birds in the photos are discussed individually in the reader-friendly text. The author knows how to make bird facts ...

Richtersveld

Umdaus Press,South Africa, 2000

Wild Life Through the Camera

1 review

Crown Publications, 1982

There is much to be learned here.
After taking pictures underwater, my next greatest passion is wildlife photography. One moment I am trying to get the smallest of living creatures to fill the frame by use of extension rings and macro lenses and the next I am trying to "freeze" the motion of a bird or butterfly in flight. None of the techniques I am still trying (that word again) to master are easy and there are very few book ...

The BBC Natural History Unit's wildlife specials (BBC Natural History Unit)
Sir David Attenborough

Trident Press, 1998

Wildlife Specials was relaunched in September 1998 to accompany a series of spectacular BBC 1 television programmes of the same name, featuring six of the most charismatic animals on our planet, the polar bear, crocodile, eagle, leopard, wolf and humpback whale. Presented by Sir David Attenborough and filmed by award-winning cameramen and producers, the Specials are a resounding success and continue to be extremely popular, not only on ...

Life in the Freezer: Natural History of the Antarctic
Alastair Fothergill

BBC Books, 1994

"Life in the Freezer" is a nature documentary series produced by the BBC's Natural History Unit. Presented by David Attenborough, the series explores the wildlife of the world's most inhospitable region - Antarctica. Following plant and animal life through the seasons, the programmes show how creatures adapt to even the coldest and toughest of weather conditions, from the wandering albatross - which uses the wind currents of the southern ocean ...

Living Planet Hb
Sir David Attenborough

BBC Books, 1984

Grace Wyndham Goldie, First Lady of Television
John Grist

Authors OnLine Ltd., 2006

The very first publicly-transmitted television in the world came from a tiny studio in Alexandra Palace in 1936. Its only viewers were a few hundred visitors to an exhibition in west London, promoted by a group of radio manufacturers. Among those watching it taking shape in the studio was a young radio critic, Grace Wyndham Goldie. By the time she retired from the BBC's Television Service, less than thirty years later, television programmes were ...

The Early Years (BBC Radio Collection)

BBC Audiobooks Ltd, 2002

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