商品規格 |
Book Title |
Life ON Earth
|
MPN |
Does not apply
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Item Length |
11.2in
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Publisher |
HarperCollins The Limited
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Brand |
Unbranded
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Publication Year |
1981
|
Format |
Hardcover
|
Language |
English
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Item Height |
1.2in
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Author |
David Attenborough
|
Features |
Dust Jacket
|
Genre |
Nature,
Science,
|
Topic |
Natural History,
Life Sciences / Evolution,
General,
Animals / Wildlife,
Ecology,
Life Sciences / Zoology / General,
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Item Width |
8.9in
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Item Weight |
61.7 Oz
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Number of Pages |
352 Pages
|
ISBN |
0002190915
|
商品狀況說明 |
Pictures are of the actual book.. Both dust cover and book show wear as shown. In this unique book, David Attenborough has undertaken nothing less than a history of nature, from the emergence of tiny one-celled organisms in the primeval slime more than 3,000 million years ago to apelike but upright man, equally well adapted to life in the rain forest of New Guinea and the glass canyons of a modern metropolis. Told through an examination of animal and plant life today - with occasional juxtapositions of extinct fossil forms to reveal the origin of living creatures - "Life on Earth" is an astonishing pageant of life, with a cast of characters drawn from the whole range of living animals the world over. Attenborough's perceptive, dynamic approach to the evolution of some four million species of living organisms that populate the planet is to trace the most significant thread in the history of each major group. He then proceeds to explain from the evidence of living representatives and f |