The Living Planet
10 best books like The Living Planet (David Attenborough): The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany, Eels: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish, The Empty Ocean, For Love of Insects, Alistair Cooke's America, The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History, Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs, The Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly Painless Guide to the Best of the Bard, The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From & How They Live, The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature
| Author | Graeme Gibson |
| ISBN | 0385514832 |
In this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birds.
Birds have ever been the symbols of our highest aspirations. As divine messengers, symbols of our yearning...
| Author | James Prosek |
| ISBN | 0060566116 |
Tour through the life history and cultural associations of the freshwater eel, exploring its biology in streams and epic migrations in the ocean, its myth and lore, its mystery and beauty. Prosek travels the globe to tell the story of the eel--from New York to New Zealand; from Europe to Japan and the...
| Author | Richard Ellis |
| ISBN | 1559636378 |
In The Empty Ocean, acclaimed author and artist Richard Ellis tells the story of our continued plunder of life in the sea and weighs the chances for its recovery. Through fascinating portraits of a wide array of creatures, he introduces us to the many forms of sea life that humans have fished, hunted,...
| Author | Thomas Eisner |
| ISBN | 0674011813 |
Imagine beetles ejecting defensive sprays as hot as boiling water; female moths holding their mates for ransom; caterpillars disguising themselves as flowers by fastening petals to their bodies; termites emitting a viscous glue to rally fellow soldiers - and you will have entered an insect world...
| Author | Alistair Cooke |
| ISBN | 0394487265 |
... a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperor's orgy is now a democratic institution. It says: 'Topless Pizza Lunch.'
(As in my reviews of Kenneth Clarke’s Civilisation and Jacob Bronowski’s The Ascent of Man, this review focuses on the documentary, not the tie-in book.)
This...
| Author | David Beerling |
| ISBN | 0192806025 |
Global warming is contentious and difficult to measure, even among the majority of scientists who agree that it is taking place. Will temperatures rise by 2 C or 8 C over the next hundred years? Will sea levels rise by 2 or 30 feet? The only way that we can accurately answer questions like these is by looking...
| Author | Sue Hubbell |
| ISBN | 0679400621 |
Hubbell channels Rachel Carson in this wonderful wandering through the bug world. She's environmentally conscious & given to almost poetic maundering about them, from the prettiest to the nastiest. Some passages would be almost pornographic out of context, but it's all good & very interesting....
| Author | Norrie Epstein |
| ISBN | 0140138862 |
I had just finished Epstein’s The Friendly Dickens and enjoyed it very much. After reading that book I thought ‘Shakespeare too, well, why not?’ I’m glad I did.
In this book Epstein takes a look at the person, plays and history of Shakespeare. She then stirs in wonderful interviews,...
| Author | Colin Tudge |
| ISBN | 0307342042 |
This is a book that took me longer to read than any other book of 2016. And I stuck to the read diligently. But I think it is only going to be appreciated by those with scientific classification onus and supreme interest and patient love of BIRDS. There are many species and this is no short cut to their placements,...
| Author | Jonathan Rosen |
| ISBN | 0374186308 |
Aerial delights: A history of America as seen through the eyes of a bird-watcher
John James Audubon arrived in America in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was president, and lived long enough to see his friend Samuel Morse send a telegraphic message from his house in New York City in the 1840s. As...
| Author | Donald J. Borror |
| ISBN | 0395911702 |
Find what you're looking for with Peterson Field Guides—their field-tested visual identification system is designed to help you differentiate thousands of unique species accurately every time. Detailed descriptions of insect orders, families, and many individual species are illustrated...
| Author | Andrew Byatt |
| ISBN | 0563384980 |
From space Planet Earth is blue. It floats like a jewel in the inky black void. The reflection of the suns light from the vast expanse of water covering its surface creates its gem-like blue colour. In the entire solar system Earth is the only planet that has water in its liquid form in such quantities. Scientists...
| Author | Gerald Durrell |
| ISBN | 0394533909 |
I read the "Amateur Naturalist" over 30 years ago and dreamed of someday designing a natural history laboratory in the way of Gerald and Lee Durrell. Alas, the years slipped by, and my dream remained unfulfilled. And then, surprisingly, I recently embarked upon a new teaching career in math and science....
| Author | Scott Weidensaul |
| ISBN | 0865476683 |
"A thoughtful examination of the machinery of extinction . . . By turns harrowing and elegiac, thrilling and informative." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Three or four times an hour, eighty or more times a day, a unique species of plant or animal vanishes forever. And yet, every so...
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior
| Author | David Allen Sibley |
| ISBN | 0679451234 |
“Once in a great while, a natural history book changes the way people look at the world. In 1838, John ames Audubon’s Birds of America was one...In 1934, Roger Tory Peterson produced Field Guide to the Birds...Now comes The Sibley Guide to Birds.”
Thus did The New York Times, in 1999, greet...
| Author | Courtney Humphries |
| ISBN | 0061259160 |
Why do we see pigeons as lowly urban pests and how did they become such common city dwellers? Courtney Humphries traces the natural history of the pigeon, recounting how these shy birds that once made their homes on the sparse cliffs of sea coasts came to dominate our urban public spaces. While detailing...
| Author | David Burnie |
| ISBN | 0756616344 |
Unrivaled in its breadth and visual impact, this unique guide sets out to illustrate, describe, and explain the incredible range of creatures that make up the animal kingdom. Exceptional Coverage. This authoritative volume starts with a clear introduction to the animal world, examining the reasons...
| Author | Caroline Fraser |
| ISBN | 0805078266 |
A gripping account of the environmental crusade to save the world’s most endangered species and landscapes—the last best hope for preserving our natural home
Scientists worldwide are warning of the looming extinction of thousands of species, from tigers and polar bears to rare flowers,...
| Author | Alastair Fothergill |
| ISBN | 1846079624 |
Frozen Planet is the exciting successor to the ground-breaking Planet Earth and Blue Planet series, and has been created by the same award-winning team. Most of us will never travel to these great wildernesses and, even for those lucky enough to have gone, this portrait of our polar regions will surprise...
| Author | Adrian Forsyth |
| ISBN | 0684187108 |
This book is written by two biologists who spent a lot of time in the tropical rain forests of central and south America. Each chapter in the book is dedicated to a different subject in the forests, and can be read independently.
Anyone who is curious about the nature world , would be thrilled by...
This the fourth of Steve Jones's series of books based on the works of Charles Darwin. Jones's
Almost Like a Whale
(1999) having been based on
The Origin of Species
(1859) which was followed by
Y: The Descent of Men
(2002), based on Darwin's
Descent of Man
(1871), and
Coral: A Pessimist In Paradise
...
The true story—and true glories—of the plants we love to hate
From dandelions to crabgrass, stinging nettles to poison ivy, weeds are familiar, pervasive, widely despised, and seemingly invincible. How did they come to be the villains of the natural world? And why can the same plant be...
| Author | John C. Kricher |
| ISBN | 0691009740 |
A Neotropical Companion is an extraordinarily readable introduction to the American tropics, the lands of Central and South America, their remarkable rainforests and other ecosystems, and the creatures that live there. It is the most comprehensive one-volume guide to the Neotropics available...
| Author | Stephen Jay Gould |
| ISBN | 0674639413 |
"Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" was Haeckel's answer--the wrong one--to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what is the relationship between individual development (ontogeny) and the evolution of species and lineages (phylogeny)? In this, the first major book on the...
