Life on Earth Author:David Attenboorough This book, like the BBC television series on which it is based, is an attempt to give us a history of natural history rather than a conventional natural history, and it is told as much as possible in terms of animals and plants alive today. The result is a pageant of life - a re-enactment of 3,500 million years of history with a cast of characte... more »rs drawn from the whole range of life on earth today.« less