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Living Planet

By: David Attenborough
Narrated by: David Attenborough
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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.

©2021 David Attenborough (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Loved it

Highly recommend, very interesting and informative. Read by the man himself so can’t go wrong.

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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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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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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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Flawless.

Everything you want in a natural history book. Beautifully read. Lots of details. Nothing not to like.

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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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Wonderful

Adore David Attenborough and have learned so much over the years from him. This books is wonderful and hearing his voice brings our plant to life

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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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Extraordinary audiobook

Loved it. Amazing narrator. His voice makes me comfortable when I do my work.

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Brilliant

Best audio ever.. highly recommended if you like the subject matter. again just brilliant

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