Living Planet: A new, fully updated edition of David Attenborough’s seminal portrait of life on Earth

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Basalt can be dated by chemical analysis and we now know that the farther away from the mid-ocean ridge a sample is taken, the older it is. First Edition, with very numerous fine coloured photographs throughout; cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Its woolly coat is so thick and warm that it has to shed much of it during the summer months to prevent over-heating, and it can live permanently at higher altitudes than any other large mammal except human beings.

This is a UK first edition hardcover published by William Collins in 2021 AND HAND SIGNED BY SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH TO A CUSTOM DESIGNED FRONT END PAPER (NOT A BOOK PLATE). This episode has the alternative title of 'The Furnaces of the Earth' on the 4-Disc BBC DVD box set (BBCDVD1234). As it neared, the sediments on the sea floor began to ruck and crumple so that the sea became increasingly shallow. From there it gushes in a torrent, 20 metres across maybe, and streams down the slope at an astonishing speed, sometimes as much as 100 kilometres an hour. Furthermore, the biological conditions in these environments have gradually altered as evolution, within or outside their frontiers, has produced new kinds of organisms and therefore presented their older inhabitants with new problems of survival.Broadcast 12 April 1984, the final instalment surveys those environments that have been created by and for humans. He has chosen beautiful, completely new photography, helping to illustrate the book in a much greater way than was possible forty years ago. Attenborough also highlights those species that have perfected the art of camouflage, including phasmids. The people of Nepal have, for many centuries, known that the valley is a highway that leads right through the Himalayas and up into Tibet. Iceland is one of a chain of volcanic islands that runs right down the centre of the Atlantic Ocean.

He changed plants by harvesting them: the vast wheat fields of America now constitute a monoculture, where no other species are permitted. Fully updated new version of the first of Attenborough's unparalleled 'Life' sequence of surveys of the world's natural history, published to complement his unique BBC television series broadcast over thirty years. Langur monkeys come too, but they are pillagers, grabbing handfuls of flowers and cramming them into their mouths.

If the lava that erupts from the ground is basalt, black and heavy, then the area may have been continuously active for many centuries. Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), French Guiana, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U. I love David Attenborough, I think he’s just the most amazing person and I love watching his documentaries and listening to his voice.

Their leaves are not broad like those of the rhododendron which catch snow and sometimes break under the weight of it, but are long tough needles which shed the snow and can withstand very low temperatures. So somewhere among the rocks there must be rodents – marmots or pikas – cautiously nibbling the grass and the cushion plants that grow, here and there, on the rubbly slopes.Their chests and their lungs are also particularly large, so they are able to take in more air with a single breath than a lowlander can. However, such adaptations are comparatively recent: these mountains were formed from the sea bed some 65 million years ago. Even now with the understanding of how important biodiversity is, how crucial it is to maintain the balance in ecosystems, there are still so many different species under extreme threat. So there are small, brilliantly coloured birds feeding from large blossoms on the slopes of the Andes which look very like the sunbirds of the Himalayas, but which belong to a quite different family of birds, and the heavy-fleeced sure-footed beast of burden that the Andean people use is the llama, a kind of camel, and not a kind of cow like the Himalayan yak.