Mother Nature Displays Her Charms
Phylum-hopping from microbes to coral reefs to orangutans, David Attenborough
offers what may well be one of the most engaging tours ever taken of the
natural world in this, a companion volume to his celebrated BBC series. The
book details the evolutionary path of all earthly life, from prehistoric plants
to present-day man.
That a frog chorus can fill a swamp with a greater
diversity of sound than one would get in a concert hall?
That a shearwater bird
was taken from Wales to Boston and managed to fly itself back home?
