SIGNED David Attenborough The Living Planet and 50 similar items

Book is in good vintage condition. Book shows light wear. Dust cover shows more wear than book ( tears, wrinkles, discoloration, folds,ink loss) Page edges show aging due to shelf storage. See pictures for more details. Shipped with USPS Signed by David Attenborough. The Living Planet is the story of the Earth's surface and its colonization by animals and plants. Changes proceed continuously. Vocanoes erupt, island are formed and disappear. Rivers clog and change their courses. Lakes fill with sediment and become swamps, and eventually plains. As continents drift over the face of the globe, moving toward the equator or up to the poles, so jungle may turn to tundra, and grasslands bake into desert. In the Living Planet David Attenborough explores the strategies different species use to survive environmental change. He visits Nepal and the Himalayas and the depths of the deep ocean. With techniques borrowed from mountaineering he climbs to the upper-most branches of the Amazon jungle canopy, in search for just a small handfull of the hundreds of thousands of individual creatures that may occupy a single hectare of forest. The picture that emerges is one of every conceivable relationship of interdependence between plants, animals, and their environments. If a habitat undergoes chang,e how do species adapt? As lake regions drain to marsh, what is required of the occupants? How do they survive? This is what David Attenborough shows us. Species' adaptations are often extraordinary: fish that walk or lay eggs on leaves in mid-air; snakes that fly; flightless birds that graze like deer; and bears that grow hair on the soles of their feet. Finally, Attenborough takes us to the most confused and indecipherable of all world habitats; the city of man. Here in the articial environment man has created for his own habitations, adaptation continues to be the key to survival. Sir David Attenborough is Britain's best-known natural history film-maker. His career as a naturalist and broadcaster has spanned nearly six decades. His first job - after Cambridge University and two years in the Royal Navy - was at a London publishing house. Then in 1952 he joined the BBC as a trainee producer, and it was while working on the Zoo Quest series (1954-64) that he had his first opportunity to undertake expeditions to remote parts of the globe, to capture intimate footage of rare wildlife in its natural habitat. He was Controller of BBC2 (1965-68), during which time he introduced colour television to Britain, then Director of Programmes for the BBC (1969-1972). However, in 1973 he abandoned administration altogether to return to documentary-making and writing, and has established himself as the world's leading Natural History programme maker with several landmark BBC series, including Life on Earth (1979), The Living Planet (1984), The Trials of Life (1990), The Private Life of Plants (1995), Life of Birds (1998), The Blue Planet (2001), Life of Mammals (2002), Planet Earth (2006) and Life in Cold Blood (2008). Sir David was knighted in 1985, is an Honorary Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, and stands at the forefront of issues concerning the planet's declining species and conservation We are happy to combine shipping in the USA. Please ask any questions prior to purchasing. Thank you for visiting our store and check out our other great listings!!