{"title":"David Attenborough","description":"David Attenborough is Britain's best-known natural history filmmaker. His career as a naturalist, broadcaster and author has spanned over seven decades. Born in 1926, his first job - after Cambridge University and two years in the Royal Navy - was at a London publishing house. Then in 1952 he joined the BBC as a trainee producer, and it was while working on the Zoo Quest series (1954-64) that he had his first opportunity to undertake expeditions to remote parts of the globe, to capture intimate footage of rare wildlife in its natural habitat. He was Controller of BBC 2 (1965-68), during which time he introduced colour television to Britain, then Director of Programmes for BBC Television (1969-1972). In 1973 he abandoned administration altogether to return to documentary-making and writing, and has established himself as the world's leading Natural History programme maker with landmark BBC series, including Life on Earth (1979), The Living Planet (1984), The Trials of Life (1990), The Private Life of Plants (1995),  Life of Birds (1998), The Blue Planet (2001), Life of Mammals (2002), Planet Earth (2006) and Life in Cold Blood (2008). He has also narrated other major natural history series including Blue Planet, Planet Earth, The Frozen Planet, Planet Earth II, Dynasties and Blue Planet II.  He has served as trustee of the British Museum, the Science Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and as President of the Royal Society for Nature Conservation. He continues to narrate landmark natural history programmes and write bestselling books. Colin Butfield is co-founder and Director of Studio Silverback. He is also the co-founder and Chair of Open Planet. He is the Executive Producer of the BBC series Earthshot, YouTube Originals climate change series Seat at the Table,  and The Climate Games. He is an advisor to The Earthshot Prize and author of the bestselling book Earthshot: How to Save Our Planet.  Prior to founding Studio Silverback Colin was WWF's Executive Producer for the Our Planet project. He was the scientific and conservation advisor to the Netflix Our Planet series and is Executive Producer of the feature documentaries David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet and Breaking Boundaries. Over the past 10 years Colin has written and produced many high profile articles and events (often with Sir David Attenborough) on the climate and nature crisis. These includes Sir David's speech at the opening of COP26, main stage events at Davos 2019 and 2020, World Bank and IMF spring meetings, COP26 Private Finance Agenda, G8 and UN Security Council.","products":[{"product_id":"ocean-earths-last-wilderness-hardcover","title":"Ocean: Earth's Last Wilderness - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward-winning broadcaster and natural historian David Attenborough and longtime collaborator Colin Butfield present a powerful call to action focused on our planet's oceans, exploring how critical this habitat is for the survival of humanity and the earth's future.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through personal stories, history and cutting-edge science, \u003ci\u003eOcean\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers the mystery, the wonder, and the frailty of the most unexplored habitat on our planet--the one which shapes the land we live on, regulates our climate, and creates the air we breathe. This book showcase the oceans' remarkable resilience: they can, and in some cases have, recovered the fastest, if we only give them the chance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing a course across David Attenborough's own lifetime, \u003ci\u003eOcean\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers on an adventure-laden voyage through eight unique ocean habitats, countless intriguing species, and the most astounding discoveries of the last 100 years, to a future vision of a fully restored marine world--one even more spectacular than we could possibly hope for. \u003ci\u003eOcean\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the past, present and potential future of our blue planet. It is a book almost a century in the making, but one that has never been more urgently needed.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376877142239,"sku":"9781538772294","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/wEaMyWNg469781538772294.webp?v=1789228838"},{"product_id":"a-life-on-our-planet-my-witness-statement-and-a-vision-for-the-future-paperback","title":"A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this scientifically informed account of the changes in nature over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian David Attenborough shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science \u0026amp; Technology Book of the Year* \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e See the world. Then make it better. \u003cbr\u003e I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day -- the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e I have been witness to this decline. \u003ci\u003eA Life on Our Planet\u003c\/i\u003e is my witness statement, and my vision for the future. It is the story of how we came to make this, our greatest mistake -- and how, if we act now, we can yet put it right. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e We have one final chance to create the perfect home for ourselves and restore the wonderful world we inherited. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e All we need is the will to do so.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376906109151,"sku":"9781538719992","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/7-buSZfeIQ9781538719992.webp?v=1789228920"},{"product_id":"living-planet-the-web-of-life-on-earth-paperback","title":"Living Planet: The Web of Life on Earth - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, \u003cem\u003eThe Living Planet\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert, ocean and volcano. These adaptations can be truly 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.\u003cbr\u003eIn The Living Planet, David Attenborough's searching eye, unfailing curiosity and infectious enthusiasm explain and illuminate the intricate lives of the these colonies, from the lonely heights of the Himalayas to the wild creatures that have established themselves in the most recent of environments, the city. By the end of this book it is difficult to say which is the more astonishing - the ingenuity with which individual species contrive a living, or the complexity of their interdependence on each other and on the habitations provided by our planet.\u003cbr\u003eIn this new edition, the author, with the help of zoologist Matthew Cobb, has added all the most up-to-date discoveries of ecology and biology, as well as a full-colour 64-page photography section. He also addresses the urgent issues facing our living planet: climate change, pollution and mass extinction of species.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376907157727,"sku":"9780008477868","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/vxy_UXqMc29780008477868.webp?v=1789228923"},{"product_id":"the-life-of-birds-paperback","title":"The Life of Birds - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA fully updated new edition of David Attenborough's bestselling classic.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBIRDS. 11,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. 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