Life In Cold Blood
Pages
288
Rating
4.43
Year
2008
Description
Frogs and toads, turtles and tortoises, crocodiles and alligators, lizards and snakes. They arose from the first backboned animals on earth three hundred million years ago - long ages before birds or mammals, even before any flowering plants. Dinosaurs apart, they are the great survivors.
David Attenborough delights in them all, as in all other forms of life - their beauty and their perfect adaptation to the earth. A teacher of consummate skill, grace and intelligence, he reveals the natural world in unforgettable books and films for BBC television.
Of all groups, surely the reptiles - so different from ourselves - deserve our better understanding. Sir David offers that, and great enjoyment along the way. Few people will read him unmoved or unenlightened.
David Attenborough delights in them all, as in all other forms of life - their beauty and their perfect adaptation to the earth. A teacher of consummate skill, grace and intelligence, he reveals the natural world in unforgettable books and films for BBC television.
Of all groups, surely the reptiles - so different from ourselves - deserve our better understanding. Sir David offers that, and great enjoyment along the way. Few people will read him unmoved or unenlightened.