account of modern scientific discoveries from around the globe. This paperback edition also includes more than 60 full colour photographs, chosen by the author to help illustrate the book in a much greater way than was possible forty years ago.
This updated edition provides a fitting tribute to an enduring wildlife classic, destined to enthral the generation who saw it when first published and bring it alive for a whole new generation.
This updated edition provides a fitting tribute to an enduring wildlife classic, destined to enthral the generation who saw it when first published and bring it alive for a whole new generation.
'It does not disappoint. The new Life on Earth is as glorious as the first'
Guardian
'For a generation of armchair naturalists, this remains a foundational text'
The Times, Top 100 Sunday Times Bestselling Books of the Last 50 Years
'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
Guardian
'For a generation of armchair naturalists, this remains a foundational text'
The Times, Top 100 Sunday Times Bestselling Books of the Last 50 Years
'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