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Living Planet
- The Web of Life on Earth
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
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Summary
The Sunday Times best seller
A new fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, 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 tundra, forest and plain, desert, ocean and volcano. These adaptations can be truly 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.
In Living Planet, David Attenborough’s searching eye, unfailing curiosity and infectious enthusiasm explain and illuminate the intricate lives of the these colonies, from the lonely heights of the Himalayas to the wild creatures that have established themselves in the most recent of environments, the city. By the end of this book, it is difficult to say which is the more astonishing - the ingenuity with which individual species contrive a living, or the complexity of their interdependence on each other and on the habitations provided by our planet.
In this new edition, the author, with the help of zoologist Matthew Cobb, has added all the most up-to-date discoveries of ecology and biology. He also addresses the urgent issues facing our living planet: climate change, pollution and mass extinction of species.
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- writerbytrade
- 18-11-22
A beautiful and moving listen
A wonderful, accessible tour of earth’s incredibly diverse habitats and how they came to be, and the plants and animals that developed to live in harmony with them — excepting, of course, us, the humans who hold the planet’s future in our hands. Attenborough isn’t recognised enough for the excellent writer he is, alongside being such a magnificent broadcaster. Having him read his own book here makes the listening experience as good as it gets.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-04-23
Loved it
Highly recommend, very interesting and informative. Read by the man himself so can’t go wrong.
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- Melissa73
- 16-07-23
As always an excellent listen
It’s as great as I expected - read by the man himself and so informative. Thoroughly recommend.
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- M. McKillop
- 30-01-22
A joy to listen to
I've always loved watching Sir David's documentaries, and this was just as enjoyable, since he read it himself.
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- Phil Wain
- 22-12-22
Flawless.
Everything you want in a natural history book. Beautifully read. Lots of details. Nothing not to like.
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- zoltan csete
- 05-06-23
brilliant
ah I so love everything David does, he is an special human from 7 billion, this book is entertaining and educational in the same time well worth it
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- Craig
- 14-12-21
loved it definitely will be getting some more
loved it definitely will be getting more of is books who doesn't like a bit of David Attenborough's
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- Kitkat
- 19-11-22
Brilliant
Best audio ever.. highly recommended if you like the subject matter. again just brilliant
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- Jonathan Overend
- 13-12-22
Superb
Another great book, brilliantly written and beautifully read by a true national treasure.
A must-read for everyone.
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- Runningrob
- 16-01-23
Brilliantly articulated but somber message
Such wonderful descriptions of the wonders of our living planet and the serious threat humanity poses to nature. David Attenborough is a living legend if only people who can change things would listen.
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