David Attenborough's The Living Planet Book Cover

The Living Planet Book Highlights:

• Amazing full page photos
• Book that goes along with a TV series by David Attenborough
• Great for nature lovers, telling about 12 different habitats animals can live in and how they adapted to their environment

If you grew up in the 1980’s you may have watched David Attenborough’s series that aired on PBS called The Living Planet.  If not, i hope you have at least one of Attenborough’s work because he is by arguably the best naturalist in front of the camera.

Most notably David has worked on Planet Earth series and also Blue Planet, along with the series called The Living Planet, which is why i am typing currently!

Back in the 80’s David Attenborough hosted a 12 part series called The Living Planet which you could also purchase this book to read a bit more into each episode.

How the Book is Setup

The book matches the episodes perfectly, consisting of 12 chapters that go along with the 12 Fifty minute episodes.  When reading The Living Planet book, i hear David Attenborough in my head.  The text is written in a way to match Attenborough’s style which makes the book exciting and compelling.

The book was written at the same time as the programmes were being filmed.  The one is not, therefore, the direct descendant of the other.  Rather the two are cousins, both descended from the same body of research and years of travel.  They therefore have the sort of differences and likenesses that ou might expect from such a relationship.  I hope the one may enhance the other.

-Taken from the Preface, The Living Planet book

So as you can see, this is not a book that was just transcribed from the video series, it was some-what on it’s own. What i really like most about this book is how i can visualize David speaking as i read this book.  At the end of each chapter, i can see David walking in the habitat he is talking about with the camera slowly zooming in on him as he sets up the next chapter, much like he did in the TV series.

Bottom-line, who should get this book

So this is an oldy-but-goody, my copy was published in 1984 and when i saw it at a used book store i HAD to have this bad boy.  I only paid 8 dollars for it and i think it’s worth that price if you are an animal book lover, and DEFFINITLY worth it if you are an Attenborough fan, which i sure am! You can only get this used, it is out of print, that means you have to hit your used book stores hard if your lucky enough to have one close, or just check eBay or amazon.com.