The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour

by David Attenborough

Overview

The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave.

‘This is, quite simply, the best thing I’ve ever done.’ Sir David Attenborough on the TV series, The Trials of Life, upon which this book is based.

This is the third and last of Sir David’s great natural history books based on his TV series and competes his survey of the animal world that began with Life on Earth and continues with Living Planet.

In Life on Earth, Sir David showed how each group of animals evolved. In Living Planet he looked at the way they have adapted to the whole range of habitats in which they live. Now, in Trials of Life, he completes the story by revealing how animals behave – and why.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780008477905
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	09/19/2023
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	915,021
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

David Attenborough is one of the world’s leading naturalists and broadcasters. His distinguished career spans more than sixty years, and his extraordinary contribution to natural history broadcasting and film-making has brought him international recognition, from Life on Earth to Frozen Planet, Planet Earth to Blue Planet. He has achieved many professional awards, honours and merits, including the CBE and OM, and was knighted in 1985.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for the New Edition of Life on Earth:

‘It does not disappoint. The new Life on Earth is as glorious as the first’ Guardian

‘A beautiful and wide ranging work. The breadth of natural history covered is extraordinary and mesmerising. Life on Earth is still breathtakingly rich, and we would know far less about it were it not for Attenborough’s wonderful skills of communication over the years: our cultural and scientific lives would be poorer without him’ New Scientist

‘This natural history masterpiece offers a spectacular snapshot of a once-wild planet’ New Scientist

Praise for David Attenborough:

‘A marvellous book … unputdownable … utterly engaging’ Telegraph

‘An elegant and gently funny writer’ The Times

‘His writing is as impressive and as enjoyable as his TV programmes and there can be no higher praise’ Daily Express

‘A great educator as well as a great naturalist’ Barack Obama

‘Sir David is a wizard of television, and, like Gandalf or Dumbledore, he has a near-magical gift for combining warmth and gravitas . . . the man who, for me, exemplifies the best in British broadcasting’ Louis Theroux

‘When I was a young boy I used to love turning on the television and watching David's programmes and really feeling like I was either back out in Africa or I was learning about something magical and almost out of this planet’ HRH Prince William

From the Publisher

Phenomenal color photographs form the cornerstone of Attenborough's new book which, along with its companion TNT TV series, picks up where the first two left off. Life on earth traced the development of animal life from its beginnings, and The living planet concentrated on how the environment shapes the bodies of animals. Now Attenborough examines how animals use those bodies--how they behave and why. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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