Book description
The epic story of the beginning of life on Earth from the much loved
and respected naturalist, writer and broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough.
Spanning billions of years, Attenborough's time-travelling narrative
brings the reader face to face with the first animals that ever existed.
By using the latest technology, we are finally able to see for ourselves
how these early animals would have looked like and how they would have
lived. Attenborough also shows us how some of the evolutionary features
of these most primitive creatures are alive today in modern animals,
including us humans.
Attenborough shows us how the evolution of the first eyes, the first
solid body parts and the first feet and backbones came to be. Looking at
global ice ages and volcanic eruptions he also shows how evolution is
heavily connected with the history of the planet.
In this groundbreaking investigation, Attenborough travels the world,
from Canada to Australia and Morocco to unearth the secrets hidden in
prehistoric fossils, providing a deeper understanding of the first
living creatures and the origins of our evolutionary traits. On Sir
David Attenborough:
'Brilliant'
Guardian
'A worthy inheritor of Alistair Cooke'
Telegraph
'The nation's favourite wildlife broadcaster'
The Times Sir David Attenborough is Britain's best-known natural
history film-maker. His career as a naturalist and broadcaster has
spanned nearly five decades and there are very few places on the globe
that he has not visited.
Over the last 25 years he has established himself as the world's
leading natural history programme maker with several landmark BBC
series, including: Life on Earth (1979), The Living Planet (1984), The
Trials of Life (1990), The Private Life of Plants (1995), The Life of
Birds (1998), The Life of Mammals (2002) and Life in the Undergrowth
(2005).
