Author43 booksDavid Attenborough
David Attenborough is a British broadcaster, naturalist, and author of Life on Earth and A Life on Our Planet. He joined the BBC in 1952 and developed the Life documentary series, with accompanying books exploring evolution and animal and plant life.
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Books by David Attenborough
Every published title we have in the catalogue, ordered by their library.

A Life on Our Planet

Life on Earth

The private life of plants

Life on Air

The trials of life

The Life of Mammals (Life of Mammals)

Adventures of a Young Naturalist

Amazing Rare Things

Life in Cold Blood

Ocean

Zoo quest for a dragon

Life of Birds

Visions of a rainforest

Discovering Life on Earth

Journeys to the past

The first Eden

Life Stories

Light on the Earth

The Zoo Quest Expeditions

The tribal eye

Deserts and grasslands

Bridge to the past

David Attenborough Life Stories

The Atlas of the Living World

Our Planet

Our Blue Planet

Drawn from Paradise

Zoo quest to Guiana.

Journeys to the Other Side of the World

Life in the Undergrowth

David Attenborough's First Life

Life in the freezer

Journeys in the Wild

Quest in paradise

Nature Tales

Drawn to Nature

My Favourite Stories Of Exploration

Life Stories 2

Zoo quest to Madagascar.

Zoo Quest in Paraguay

Alfred Russel Wallace

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Seven Worlds One Planet
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