Among the most difficult places, in terms of logistics, was the Sudan, where the crew had to be flown in – despite there being no runways or indeed roads. To be honest, looking at the categories, this one could count towards quite a few but I’m going to use it for Popular Science. As you stand in Nepal beside its roaring milky waters, looking upstream towards the main range of the Himalayas, the river seems to spring from a cluster of immense snow-capped, ice-girt peaks. Their leaves are not broad like those of the rhododendron which catch snow and sometimes break under the weight of it, but are long tough needles which shed the snow and can withstand very low temperatures. Attenborough goes underwater himself to observe the ocean's life forms and comment on them at first hand.

Signed first edition (First edition, first printing, signed by the author) The Sunday Times Bestseller A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet . But you will never be able to match the physical endurance of the muleteers who have come up with you and whose homes are at high altitudes. Giant Senecioss and Lobelias combat this by (among other adaptations) insulating their growing points or stems with an dense layers of leaves or producing pectin-filled water reservoirs.

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The volcanic islands of Hawaii have become rich in vegetation and therefore a multitude of colonists: for example, there are at least 800 species of drosophila that are unique to the area. Where waves meet rocks and cliffs, the bands between low and high tides are narrow, and creatures have developed according to their dietary and safety needs. 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.David Attenborough is always good for the most pleasant and intense cranial massage, getting the brain going and thinking. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook).