When, after days or weeks, the supply of lava from the vent stops, the river continues to flow downwards until the tunnel is drained, leaving behind it a great winding cavern. The sandgrouse evaporates moisture by fluttering its throat, while the road runner also uses its tail as a parasol. When water reaches such areas, it loses its impetus and drops its sediment, potentially making it very fertile. The red-breasted goose migrates entirely overland, and so can stop for fuel every night – unlike those that cross the open ocean. With the level of intelligence and the skills that are the particular possession of humanity, they were able to make warm clothing for themselves and build fires.

Some subjects proved even more challenging: the production team had to wait two years for news to arrive of an erupting volcano, and had to suspend all other filming in the hope that it would still be alight when they reached it. Finally, further south still, Attenborough discovers the effects of forest fires, which are not so destructive as they appear – the areas affected rejuvenate themselves within a couple of months, with more flowers than before.

Mount Rainier in America is an example of such a place: there is no vegetation, therefore no herbivores and thus no carnivores. It is such activity, known as plate tectonics, from deep within the Earth that pulled apart Africa and South America and created the Atlantic Ocean.

By the time it has settled down and fallen over its last cascade, the water becomes tranquil and rich with nutrients from its banks. Langur monkeys come too, but they are pillagers, grabbing handfuls of flowers and cramming them into their mouths.

The dust jacket is clipped, and there is a very small amount of ware to the front upper corner of the inside jacket, and a small bit of damage to the spine, as shown in images.

The series consists of twelve episodes which explain how the Earth works and how living organisms survive and thrive in different environments. Signed first edition (First edition, first printing, signed by the author) The Sunday Times Bestseller A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet .Today, their blood contains 30 per cent more corpuscles than that of people living at sea level and is in consequence able to carry more oxygen per litre.

The thin cardboard envelope the book was posted in had ripped and Royal Mail had to put it in one of their plastic envelopes. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). He enjoys this rather strange, symbiotic relationship with the BBC, an odd and apparently friendly organism, whose workings we do not yet fully understand.His distinguished career spans more than sixty years, and his extraordinary contribution to natural history broadcasting and film-making has brought him international recognition, from Life on Earth to Frozen Planet, Planet Earth to Blue Planet. The African plains have a greater variety and bigger concentration of grass-living animals than any other. Lava froth is thrown high above the main plume where the howling wind catches it, cools it and blows it away to coat distant rocks with layers of grey prickly grit.