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Life on Earth: A Natural History Attenborough, Sir David

Science & Math

SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

Biological Sciences

Collins

Drawn from Paradise is David Attenborough s journey through the cultural history of the birds of paradise, one of the most exquisite and extravagant, colourful and intriguing families of birds.
From the moment they were introduced to the European mind in the early sixteenth century, their unique beauty was recognised and commemorated in the first name that they were given birds so beautiful must be birds from paradise.
In this unique exploration of a truly awe-inspiring family of birds which to this day is still shrouded in mystery, David Attenborough and Errol Fuller trace the natural history of these enigmatic birds through their depiction in western works of art throughout the centuries, featuring beautiful illustrations by such luminary artists as Jacques Barraband, William Hart, John Gould, Rubens and Breughel, to name but a few. Experienced ornithologists and general nature and art enthusiasts alike will delight in this journey of discovery of the world s most beautiful and mysterious birds.

Drawn From Paradise: The Discovery, Art and Natural History of the Birds of Paradise

Reference

Errol Fuller

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Journeys to the Past: Travels in New Guinea, Madagascar, and the Northern Territory of Australia

No one writes more consistently entertaining travel books than David Attenborough, and this new collection will be widely welcomed and richly enjoyed. In Journeys to the Past David Attenborough tells of four expeditions in search not only of animals but of unusual people and remote tribes who retain their ancient rituals and ways of life. In New Guinea he attended a sing-sing performed by over five hundred dancers gloriously adorned with the multicoloured plumes of birds of paradise, and trekked for days into the Jimi Valley, then little explored. He watched a tribe making stone axes and met a pygmy people who wore extraordinary bulbous hats made from their hair clippings and woven to their scalps. On the island of Pentecost he marvelled at the courage of the sensational land-divers who jumped head first from a tower over eighty feet high with vines tied round their ankles. On Tanna he observed a cargo cult and talked to its leader, and on Tonga he filmed the Royal Kava ceremony, the most important and sacred of all the surviving ancient rituals. David Attenborough describes Madagascar as 'one of Nature's lumber rooms, a place where antique outmoded forms of life that have long since disappeared from the rest of the world still survive in isolation'. Here he observed many species of lemur, including the enchanting snow-white sifakas and the 'dog-headed man', the indris, about whom there are many legends; he collected fragments of the largest eggs in the world laid by the now extinct Aepyornis, and saw the ritual of the turning the dead. Finally, in the Northern Territory of Australia he filmed the aborigines' way of life, examined the remarkable rock paintings which parallel the first drawings made by mankind, learnt about the legends in which they describe their myths of the creation of the world, and met an old man who lived a hermit's life in a remote part of the outback in an upturned water tank. Vivid descriptions, hilarious incidents, and extraordinary encounters makes this book superb family reading.

Journeys to the past: Travels in New Guinea, Madagascar, and the northern territory of Australia

History

Australia & Oceania

Lutterworth Press

Life on Air

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

BBC Books

David Attenborough 2 Books Collection Set (Adventures of a Young Naturalist & Journeys to the Other Side of the World)

Professionals & Academics

Two Roads Ltd

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