Life on Earth: A Top 100 Sunday Times Bestseller of the Past 50 Years

Outstanding as usual with David Attenborough. It’s a wonderful read.

I adore Sir David Attenborough. I collect anything Sir David Attenborough, his books, his videos, all his documentaries. What this man has done for our planet is more than a thousand people combined. I wish he would live forever! But I know he shudders at what our current leader is doing to destroy what he can... This book, the hardcover, is beautiful. It is printed on great quality paper like all his books. If you can get your hands on "The Life of Birds", get it!!! I wish they would put that series out in Hi Def, it is so worth it! As for this book, I love, love, love it, period. 'Nuf said. Thank you, dear Sir Attenborough, for everything. Every time a wild animal comes my way that needs my help, I think of the huge things you have done compared to my tiny contribution to our native wildlife. A life is a life, no matter how large or how small, and it deserves protecting. We might just be evolution's biggest mistake if we don't learn to protect what we have, before it is too late. The planet is already fighting back, and it will destroy us to make room for a better version if we don't listen and obey nature's warnings.

The author has a great way of writing making everything understanable and interesting great pictures a must read for everyone

Really informative. I learned a lot from it about animals, the environment, and their interactions. I know now about a lot of cool animals that existed in the past, plus some that still exist today.

wonderful book. sir david attenborough has such an engaging writing style, i can't put it down!! also bought his private life of plants book, which i will read next. highly recommend!!

I loved the pictures in this book. They are truly awesome. The book covers the story of life from the beginning to now. I would recommend it to everyone who is interested in life on this planet.

We have created a crisis, we must protect what is left. David tells us such amazing details of evolutionary aspects of the species, its truly fascinating, now lets protect our home.

Gorgeous pictures, will keep kids occupied, adults can appreciate it too.

Arrivata in perfetta condizione, prezzo mega sconto

La verdad es que lo compré para un regalo, así que no lo he leído. Creo que merece la pena leer a este hombre, toda una institución.

The book has to be good and excellent, after all, it's by Sir David Attenborough.

Great narration. Eloquent language. Well written. Well worth 5 stars +

This is a simply wonderful book. And the wonderful David Attenborough both writes a book that blows your mind and makes you look at everything around you with the an ever more increased wonder then you could have ever thought possible in a voice that will make you listen, feel relaxed and allow your mind to gently explode and splatter on the walls around you. Whereas his documentaries make you watch and wonder at amazing and wondrous miracles of life, this puts everything into context with a narrative that tells us how we actually got here. It begins with how we are able to understand the past through fossils and now through genetic decoding. The story starts 3 1/2 billion years ago as life first emerged a simple forms of bacteria which slowly and gradually evolved over millions of years. The Grand Canyon layers of rock beautifully explain some of the story and stretch back millions of years. And then plants and trees and early marine, sea like creatures through to dinosaurs which were wiped out in the fifth (and currently last) mass extinction event. Genes crested ever more evolving and complicated life. Then we learn how flowers create petals and colour - so they could develop more ingenious methods to transplant seeds by insects. We learn how ants know to create a colony that determines who becomes a soldier ant, a worker or a queen. Ants can communicate with one another to form a hive that is dependent on everyone knowing their role in their place and how they work with one another for this to occur. Salmon can leave its place of birth, swim out into the ocean and when they become fully formed adult return back to its original river that it came from by a sense of smell (salmon with damaged nostrils struggle to return to home), chemically change from seawater to freshwater and returned to the place they came from.. Then the mail salmon changes into a fighting machine and breeds with her mate and then all the salmon fall apart and die, never to return to the ocean again but mate with a female and then having laid 1000 eggs which will perform the same feat over and over again as the parents body falls to pieces and dies.