Life on Earth Audiobook (Free)

A new edition of David Attenborough’s groundbreaking Life on Earth.

Winner of Best Non-Fiction Audiobook at the New York Radio Awards 2019.

Shortlisted for Perfect Audiobook at the Specsavers National Book Honours 2018.

Shortlisted for Futurebook of the Year in the Futurebook Awards 2018.

The country’s greatest voice, David Attenborough, reads a brand-new edition of Lifestyle on Earth, available these days as an audiobook for the first time.

David about Existence on Earth Attenborough’s unforgettable ending up in gorillas became an iconic second for millions of tv viewers. Life on the planet, the series and accompanying book, fundamentally changed just how we watch and interact with the natural world, setting a new benchmark of quality, influencing a generation of nature lovers. Told via an examination of animal and plant life, that is an astonishing celebration of the advancement of life on the planet, with a ensemble of characters attracted from the whole range of organisms that have ever resided on this world. Attenborough’s perceptive, powerful method of the development of an incredible number of types of living organisms takes the audience with an unforgettable journey of discovery from the very first spark of lifestyle towards the blue and green wonder we know today.

Right now, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the book’s first publication, David Attenborough provides revisited Life on the planet, completely upgrading and adding to the original text message, taking account of modern scientific discoveries from around the globe. This special wedding anniversary edition offers a installing tribute for an long lasting wildlife traditional, destined to enthral the era who noticed it when first published and take it alive for a whole new generation.

This audiobook includes wildlife sounds from BAFTA Award winning sound recordist, Chris Watson, who has worked extensively with David Attenborough on his BBC projects. A soundscape shows up at the beginning of each section to provide a completely immersive experience of the habitat plus some of the species described. A full list of the tracks, as they appear in the audiobook, is available below.

• Prologue – Acacia scrubland dawn chorus in the Masai Mara, Kenya, featuring White-browed Robin-chat.

• Chapter One, The Infinite Range – Tropical rainfall forest in Panama using the phone calls of Montezuma oropendola.

• Chapter Two, Building Bodies – Fish and crustaceans documented underwater on a coral reef off Seligan isle, Borneo.

• Chapter Three, The First Forests – Geysir and geothermal activity in Haukadalur warm springs in Iceland. This monitor also features the Strokkur geysir erupting.

• Chapter Four, The Swarming Hordes – Evening insect chorus in the Conkouati forest reserve, Republic of Congo.

• Chapter Five, The Conquest from the Waters – Sea currents through sea kelp recorded at a depth of 8m, Moray Firth, Scotland.

• Chapter Six, Invasion of The Land – Reed frog chorus at sunset, Amboseli Country wide Park, Kenya.

• Chapter Seven, A Watertight Epidermis – Seawash around basking marine iguanas, Isla San Cristóbal, Galapagos.

• Chapter Eight, Lords of The Air – Springtime dawn chorus with nightingale, Hambleton timber, Rutland Water nature reserve, UK.

• Chapter Nine, Eggs, Pouches and Placentas – forest chorus along riverside platypus territory, Queensland, Australia.

• Chapter Ten, Theme and Deviation – Common Pipistrelle bats echolocating after sunset, Holystone woodland, Northumberland.

• Chapter Eleven, The Hunters and The Hunted – Noticed hyena contact calls at midnight in the Masai Mara, Kenya.

• Chapter Twelve, A Existence in The Trees – Dark howler monkeys contacting over the tree canopy at sunrise in Belize.

• Chapter Thirteen, The Compulsive Communicators – Road market, Ramnagar, Uttarakhand, Northern India.

• Epilogue – Seaside habitat in mangroves with Great frigatebirds and reddish footed boobies, Isla Genovesa, Galapagos.