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Life on Earth Hardcover – Illustrated, 4 October 2018

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ASIN : 0008294283
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers; Illustrated edition (4 October 2018)
Language : English
Hardcover : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 9780008294281
ISBN-13 : 978-0008294281
Dimensions : 3.05 x 22.61 x 28.19 cm

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‘It does not disappoint. The new Life on Earth is as glorious as the first’
Guardian

‘A beautiful and wide ranging work. The breadth of natural history covered is extraordinary and mesmerising. Life on Earth is still breathtakingly rich, and we would know far less about it were it not for Attenborough’s wonderful skills of communication over the years: our cultural and scientific lives would be poorer without him’
New Scientist

‘This natural history masterpiece offers a spectacular snapshot of a once-wild planet’
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David Attenborough is one of the world’s leading naturalists and broadcasters. His distinguished career spans more than fifty years, and his multi-award winning films and series have been broadcast around the world.

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Aussie Bloke

It's Sir Attenborough!

Reviewed in Australia on 24 February 2021

I really don't need to say anything, if you are reading this you literally know you are going to buy it!

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FussyMissus

delightful adaptiation

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 November 2018

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Audio education at its finest. The mellow voice of Sir David narrates his Life on earth book, and allows for the changes in theory since the original programme was made. Despite the programme being very visual, the descriptions in the audio book are such that you almost see what he is describing in your minds eye.
A relaxing but educational listening experience and one not to be missed by either fans of Sir David or fans of the series.

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J. Drew

The story of life and it’s amazing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 March 2020

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This is a simply wonderful book. And the wonderful David Attenborough both writes a book that blows your mind and makes you look at everything around you with the an ever more increased wonder then you could have ever thought possible in a voice that will make you listen, feel relaxed and allow your mind to gently explode and splatter on the walls around you. Whereas his documentaries make you watch and wonder at amazing and wondrous miracles of life, this puts everything into context with a narrative that tells us how we actually got here. It begins with how we are able to understand the past through fossils and now through genetic decoding. The story starts 3 1/2 billion years ago as life first emerged a simple forms of bacteria which slowly and gradually evolved over millions of years. The Grand Canyon layers of rock beautifully explain some of the story and stretch back millions of years. And then plants and trees and early marine, sea like creatures through to dinosaurs which were wiped out in the fifth (and currently last) mass extinction event. Genes crested ever more evolving and complicated life. Then we learn how flowers create petals and colour - so they could develop more ingenious methods to transplant seeds by insects. We learn how ants know to create a colony that determines who becomes a soldier ant, a worker or a queen. Ants can communicate with one another to form a hive that is dependent on everyone knowing their role in their place and how they work with one another for this to occur. Salmon can leave its place of birth, swim out into the ocean and when they become fully formed adult return back to its original river that it came from by a sense of smell (salmon with damaged nostrils struggle to return to home), chemically change from seawater to freshwater and returned to the place they came from.. Then the mail salmon changes into a fighting machine and breeds with her mate and then all the salmon fall apart and die, never to return to the ocean again but mate with a female and then having laid 1000 eggs which will perform the same feat over and over again as the parents body falls to pieces and dies.

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a modern day "Origin of Species"

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 October 2018

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The original book and TV series has been a major influence on my life and thinking. The updated 40th anniversary edition is a beautiful book. . The story of Life on Earth...………………………..

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. (Charles Darwin, Origin of Species)

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Great value for an excellent book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 February 2020

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I bought this for my nine-year-old son, who is a real nature buff. The book arrived in good time and was packaged well. The quality of the book leaves nothing to be desired, and while the design is a little different from the original, which I had as a child, it is just as good. A great addition to any home library.

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L.W

The definitive guide to an amazing series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 October 2018

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A superb purchase which closely follows the original script from the series. The photography has been brought up to date too, the book is heavy with good quality glossy paper. The range of locations visited also very impressive.
The structure of the book logically sets out the different milestones in the evolutionary story. The book use both fossil and modern examples to show key physical and behavioural adaptations. I can't really think of any flaws with Life on Earth. The scale of the kind of story it wants to tell us truly impressive.

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