A personal view of the natural world

Sir David Attenborough is Britain's best-known natural history film-maker. He is also Britain's most respected and lauded natural history broadcaster and writer, championing conservation and standing at the forefront of issues concerning the planet's declining species. This title tells us of his experiences of filming in the 21st century.

The Royal Collection, held at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace and Holyroodhouse, has been shaped by royal taste over five hundred years. This title introduces the collection's natural history artworks. It represents a period when European knowledge of the world was transformed by voyages of discovery to the farthest reaches of Africa and Asia.

This second book in the Converging World series from the Schumacher Institute, focuses on global connectivity and the role of new digital and traditional media in bringing people together to protect the world's endangered wildlife and conserve fragile and threatened habitats.

Aims to take you on a tour of the world's many habitats - each possessing its own unique mood -from the claustrophobic darkness of the Deep Ocean to the big skies of the Open Plains; the merciless, ever-expanding Deserts to the diminishing Jungles, teeming with violent life. The thread that binds them all is water.

Foreword by David Attenborough; Chapter 1: The Green inheritance; Chapter 2: Guardians of the Environment; Chapter 3: Green Travellers; Chapter 4: Our Daily Bread; Chapter 5: The Spice of Life; Chapter 6: Green Wealth; Chapter 7: Green Medicine; Chapter 8: Objects of Beauty; Chapter 9: Plants in Society; Chapter 10: Improving the.

Takes us back to one of the author's projects, when the BBC and London Zoo joined forces on several animal-collecting expeditions. This behind-the-scenes look at how the first programmes were made reveals moments of hardship; and tells of danger on the crew's hazardous boat trip with a gun-smuggling captain and the terror of erupting volcanoes.

Dealing with life in the undergrowth, this book shows that for every pound of humans on Earth, there are 300 pounds of insects. It shows the reader bugs, beetles, creepy-crawlies, scorpions and centipedes, mites and mantids, spiders and dragonflies.

Reptiles and amphibians ruled the world for nearly 200 million years. Together, they not only outnumber mammals or birds but in their variety and extraordinary behaviour, they far surpass them. This book traces the story of their evolution and overturns the myth that these creatures are just primitive killers to reveal them for what they are.

Following his expedition to Indonesia, as told in Zoo Quest For A Dragon , David Attenborough's next animal collecting and filming trip was to New Guinea, home of the exotic Birds of Paradise. Here, he tells of his adventures during the trip: being an onlooker at a formal lovemaking ceremony, and seeing the skills of ritual axe making.

David Attenborough recounts the story of 4000 species that have outlived the dinosaurs and conquered the farthest places on Earth: the mouse-sized Pioneers who lived alongside the dinosaurs; the Insect Eaters; the tool-using Root Raiders and Seed Stealers; and the Leaf Eaters.

Provides an overview of the behaviour, biology, ecology, biogeography, and history of an ornate group of birds. This book is illustrated by 12 colour plates, including 42 species of birds of paradise, line drawings of many behaviours, maps, graphs, sonograms, and photographs. It is useful for ornithologists and naturalists.

The author uncovers new research into the behaviour of birds, investigating the secrets of their success, their remarkable strategies for finding food, their complex soxcial systems and their ingenious and often bizarre ways of mating and breeding.

The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery. Examines the relationship between five masters of the art of natural history and the worlds they chose to portray, from Leonardo's studies of plants and animals to Cassiano dal Pozzo's immense 'Paper Museum', and from the microcosm of an English garden to the new worlds of the Americas. Includes drawings by Leonardo Da Vinci, Cassiano Dal Pozzo,

Illustrated throughout with over 200 photographs, this work is a celebration of the splendour and diversity of the island's natural history. It also describes the efforts of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to protect and nurture Borneo's wealth of natural resources.

The Northern Territory of Australia is an area that extends for a thousand miles from north to south and nearly six hundred miles from east to west. This title shows the author's meeting Aborigines, going walkabout in the bush, learning the secret craft of the artists of Arnhem Land, and seeking out a trio of canny no-hopers of debatable origin.