| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780520250543 | | Publisher: University of California Press | | Publish Date: 3/5/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 203526583 | | Item#: RX9GSW | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 67998 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 11.25H x 10L x 1T | | Pages: 312 |
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| | | This remarkable book, a companion to the acclaimed Discovery Channel/ BBC series, is an enduring and awe-inspiring record of one of the most ambitious natural history projects ever undertaken. Using state-of-the-art cameras and technology, more than 400 stunning photographs are featured. University of California Press
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In this companion to the PLANET EARTH television series, Alastair Fothergill and his staff employ state-of-the art surveillance and photography techniques to take more than 400 stunning photographs of landscapes and wildlife, showing life on this planet as it has never been seen before. PLANET EARTH presents the beauty and diversity of the natural world and, by implication, underscores the imperative to preserve it.
| Author Bio| David Attenborough | | Noted for his wildlife films, David Attenborough joined the BBC in 1952. He had previously studied zoology at Cambridge, and then served in the Royal Navy in the late 1940s. Between 1954 and 1964, he made annual trips to film and study wildlife and human cultures in distant parts of the world. These expeditions were recorded into the "Zoo Quest" series of television programs and books. He was program director and on the board of management for the BBC from 1969 to 1972. Knighted in 1985, Sir David Attenborough was also made a Companion of Honour in 1996. Attenborough married Jane Oriel in 1950 and has a son and a daughter; he is the brother of the actor Richard Attenborough. |
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