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

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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. And here plants and animals proliferate in such numbers that we still have not even named all the different species. Now, such life has all but disappeared, with the exception of the cypress, whose roots find water deep underground.

By the time you have trudged up to 2500 metres, the rhododendrons, in their turn, have disappeared except for a few patches on sheltered slopes. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert, ocean and volcano. Every day, throughout the summer, trains of mules plod up the winding stony tracks, red horsehair plumes bobbing on their withers, red pompoms on long strings swinging from their pack saddles, carrying huge loads of barley and buckwheat, tea and cloth, up to Tibet to be traded for bales of wool and cakes of salt. I have retained the same style as before, avoiding as far as possible technical scientific terms and not encumbering the text with Latin names.Signed first edition (First edition, first printing, signed by the author) The Sunday Times Bestseller A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet .

The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the UK from 19 January 1984. 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.First Edition, with very numerous fine coloured photographs throughout; cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. 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). There is little now on the rocky hillside except a few tussocky plants and an occasional bush of buckthorn or juniper.