- Environmental engineering, Climatic changes, Conservation of natural resources, Natural history
As a young man, Attenborough felt he 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. Here he shares his witness statement from a lifetime of wisdom. And he offers a hopeful vision for the future: how we can work to restore the wonderful world we inherited. -- adapted from jacket
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Epic, earnest, grave and spare.
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- David Attenborough, Jonnie Hughes
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing, Grand Central Publishing, Cengage Gale
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781473587717
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Sir David Frederick Attenborough is an English broadcaster and naturalist. He is best known for writing and presenting the nine Life series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on the planet. He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. He is the only person to have won BAFTAs for programmes in each of black and white, colour, HD, and 3D. - Wikipedia
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