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The Living Planet (Inspiration for the PBS Series)
Category: Geography: Biology
Author: David Attenborough
Copyright/published Year: 1984 by Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316057487
Binding: hardcover
The Living Planet is the story of the Earth's surface and
its colonization by animals and plants. Changes proceed
continuously. Vocanoes erupt, island are formed and disappear.
Rivers clog and change their courses. Lakes fill with sediment
and become swamps, and eventually plains. As continents drift
over the face of the globe, moving toward the equator or up to
the poles, so jungle may turn to tundra, and grasslands bake into
desert.
In The Living Planet David Attenborough explores the
strategies different species use to survive environmental change.
He visits Nepal and the Himalayas and the depths of the deep
ocean. With techniques borrowed from mountaineering he climbs to
the upper-most branches of the Amazon jungle canopy, in search
for just a small handfull of the hundreds of thousands of
individual creatures that may occupy a single hectare of forest.
The picture that emerges is one of every conceivable relationship
of interdependence between plants, animals, and their
environments. If a habitat undergoes change how do species adapt?
As lake regions drain to marsh, what is required of the
occupants? How do they survive? This is what David Attenborough
shows us. Species' adaptations are often extraordinary: fish that
walk or lay eggs on leaves in mid-air; snakes that fly;
flightless birds that graze like deer; and bears that grow hair
on the soles of their feet.
Finally, Attenborough takes us to the most confused and
indecipherable of all world habitats; the city of man. Here in
the articial environment man has created for his own habitations,
adaptation continues to be the key to survival.
Condition Information
This is a used book.
Good condition.
Condition Description
Companion to PBS Special Premium. Jacket has tears and chips. Previous owner embossed bookmark on bottom of Half-Title page. Clean and unmarked. Sound square binding.
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