The Living Planet
by David Attenborough

The Living Planet is the story of the Earth's surface and its colonization by animals and plants. Changes proceed continuously. Volcanoes erupt, islands are formed and disappear. Rivers clog and change their courses. Lakes fill with sediment and become swamps, and eventually plans. As continents drift over the face of the globe, moving toward the equator or up to the poles, so jungle may turn to tundra, and grasslands bake into desert.

In The Living Planet David Attenborough explores the strategies different species use to survive environmental change. He visits Nepal and the Himalayas and the depths of the deep ocean. With techniques borrowed from mountaineering he climbs to the uppermost brances of the Amazon jungle canopy, in search for just a small handful of the hundred of thousands of individual creatures that may occupy a single hectare forest.

Beautiful pictures. Hardbound book in excellent shape.