In 1954, David Attenborough, a young television presenter, was offered the opportunity of a lifetime--to travel the world finding rare and elusive animals for the London Zoo's collection, and to film the expedition for the BBC for a new show called Zoo Quest. This is the story of those voyages. Staying with local tribes while trekking in search of giant anteaters in Guyana, Kom...(展开全部)

大卫·爱登堡（David Attenborough），英国电视节目制作人、主持人、博物学家和旅行家，被誉为“自然纪录片之父”。他就读于剑桥大学，学习自然科学，1952年加入英国广播公司，1954年开始制作具有开创性的纪录片《动物园探奇》。在长达七十年的职业生涯中，他策划、解说了《生命的进化》《飞禽传》《地球脉动》《我们的星球》等多部经典的自然纪录片，向观众呈现了地球生命的几乎每一个方面，并深刻地改变了我们认识自然的方式。爱登堡于1985年被授予爵士称号，2005年获得英国皇室功绩勋章。他曾任大英博物馆和英国皇家植物园的托管人，目前担任英国蝴蝶保护委员会会长。 译者 李想，北京大学考古文博学院硕士，现工作于中国社会科学院考古研究所。 审校 张劲硕，中国科学院动物研究所博士，国家动物博物馆副馆长、研究馆员。

大卫·爱登堡（David Attenborough），英国电视节目制作人、主持人、博物学家和旅行家，被誉为“自然纪录片之父”。他就读于剑桥大学，学习自然科学，1952年加入英国广播公司，1954年开始制作具有开创性的纪录片《动物园探奇》。在长达七十年的职业生涯中，他策划、解说了《生命的进化》《飞禽传》《地球脉动》《我们的星球》等多部经典的自然纪录片，向观众呈现了地球生命的几乎每一个方面，并深刻地改变了我们认识自然的方式。爱登堡于1985年被授予爵士称号，2005年获得英国皇室功绩勋章。他曾任大英博物馆和英国皇家植物园的托管人，目前担任英国蝴蝶保护委员会会长。 译者 李想，北京大学考古文博学院硕士，现工作于中国社会科学院考古研究所。 审校 张劲硕，中国科学院动物研究所博士，国家动物博物馆副馆长、研究馆员。

In 1954, David Attenborough, a young television presenter, was offered the opportunity of a lifetime--to travel the world finding rare and elusive animals for the London Zoo's collection, and to film the expedition for the BBC for a new show called Zoo Quest. This is the story of those voyages. Staying with local tribes while trekking in search of giant anteaters in Guyana, Kom...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize, Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of Dara McAnulty's world, from spring to summer, autumn to winter, on his home patch, at school, in the wild and in his head. Evocative, raw and beautifully written, this very special book vividly explores the natural world from the perspective of an autistic teenager juggling homework, exam...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize, Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of Dara McAnulty's world, from spring to summer, autumn to winter, on his home patch, at school, in the wild and in his head. Evocative, raw and beautifully written, this very special book vividly explores the natural world from the perspective of an autistic teenager juggling homework, exam...(展开全部)

Following the success of the original Zoo Quest expeditions, in the late 1950s onwards the young David Attenborough embarked on further travels in a very different part of the world. From Madagascar and New Guinea to the Pacific Islands and the Northern Territory of Australia, he and his cameraman companion were aiming to record not just the wildlife, but the way of life of som...(展开全部)

David Attenborough first established his current reputation on television with his Zoo Quest series, and these original accounts of his travels proved him to be an excellent writer and a gifted and amusing story teller. This edition brings together, slightly abridged, his descriptions of three journeys - to Guyana where he explored the broad savannahs of the Rupununi, the creek...(展开全部)

David Attenborough first established his current reputation on television with his Zoo Quest series, and these original accounts of his travels proved him to be an excellent writer and a gifted and amusing story teller. This edition brings together, slightly abridged, his descriptions of three journeys - to Guyana where he explored the broad savannahs of the Rupununi, the creek...(展开全部)

The autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century, tells a story rich with amazingly prophetic speculations and peppered with lively anecdotes. As a member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1944 on, Ulam helped to precipitate some of the most dramatic changes of the postwar world. He was among the first to...(展开全部)