David Attenborough

The legacy-defining Sunday Times bestseller by Sir David Attenborough - now in paperback. With a new afterword, "Why You Are Here" - A speech on the opening of the COP26 climate summit. 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...

The Sunday Times Bestseller A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities, adapt to make the most of ice cap and...

The broadcasting memoirs of Sir David Attenborough, the world's leading Natural History programme-maker - revised and updated in mass market paperback. Sir David Attenborough is Britain's best-known natural history film-maker. His career as a naturalist and broadcaster has spanned nearly six decades, and in this volume of memoirs Sir David tells stories of the people and animals he has met...

The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet, ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave. ‘This is, quite simply, the best thing I’ve ever done.’ Sir David Attenborough on the TV series, The Trials of Life, upon which this book is...

David Attenborough’s Life Trilogy is a complete introduction to the animals and plants found on Earth. The three books—published to accompany the classic BBC TV series—are essential reading for anyone interested in the natural world. The Life Trilogy Boxset contains special editions of David Attenborough's three most important books. Life on Earth David Attenborough’s unforgettable meeting with gorillas became an...

A gorgeously illustrated volume devoted to the natural history drawings and watercolours of Leonardo da Vinci and other outstanding artists of the Age of Discovery. 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...

A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough’s bestselling classic. Birds. 11,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their lightness, freedom, and richness of plumage and song. David...

The Sunday Times Bestseller A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.

A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough’s bestselling classic. Birds. 11,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their lightness, freedom and richness of plumage and song. David...

A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough’s bestselling classic. Birds. 11,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their lightness, freedom and richness of plumage and song. David...