{"id":75989,"date":"2017-09-05T15:21:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T04:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=75989"},"modified":"2017-09-05T15:21:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T04:21:51","slug":"travel-world-alongside-david-attenborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2017\/09\/05\/travel-world-alongside-david-attenborough\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel the world alongside David Attenborough."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Life<\/a>Life on Air by David Attenborough <\/strong>
\nReview by Lara Summerville<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sir David Attenborough is globally beloved for revealing the hidden treasures of natural history on Earth, and in Life On Air<\/em><\/a> he has gifted us with a far more personal treasure. This wonderful book takes the reader on the journey through Attenborough\u2019s television career, one spanning over 65 years.<\/p>\n

Life on Air<\/em> offers a truly enriching reading experience; Attenborough\u2019s distinctive voice is heard so clearly throughout this book, and his extraordinary natural talent as a storyteller is beautifully revealed, to the delight of the reader. He delivers his readers nothing but the facts, imparting them with the same humble modesty and dry wit that readers have come to know and love on the screen. Unlike Attenborough\u2019s famous documentaries, which excel in capturing unique footage of flora and fauna in situ, Life On Air<\/em> details the intimate experience that humans can have with nature, as well as Attenborough\u2019s vast accomplishments that he\u2019s celebrated behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a highly relatable account, one which allows the reader to marvel at the grandness of nature as they travel the world alongside Attenborough. My imagination ran wild as I read, imagining being amongst the first foreign explorers to explore the depths of the New Guinea forests, or to walk alongside mountain gorillas as they moved through the jungle. I was similarly in awe as I imagined the thrill of being on the first expedition to encounter an unknown tribe of indigenous peoples, or as I sat beside Attenborough, privileged to privately view cultural rituals in the sanctity of the wilderness. In that sense, Life On Air<\/em> is not unlike a \u201cMaking Of\u201d episode, those small bits which Attenborough is renowned for including at the end of each of his series. He delights his readers at every turn with anecdotes of the wildlife he encounters, his mishaps with international travel, and of the many human experiences that would not normally feature in a natural history film.<\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019re a lover of natural history or not, this is a book that all will treasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Life on Air by David Attenborough Review by Lara Summerville Sir David Attenborough is globally beloved for revealing the hidden treasures of natural history on Earth, and in Life On Air he has gifted us with a far more personal treasure. This wonderful book takes the reader on the journey through Attenborough\u2019s television career, one spanning over 65 years. Life on Air offers a truly enriching reading experience; Attenborough\u2019s distinctive voice is heard so clearly throughout this book, and his extraordinary natural talent as a storyteller is beautifully revealed, to the delight of the reader. He delivers his readers nothing but the facts, imparting them with the same humble modesty and dry wit that readers have come to know and love on the screen. Unlike Attenborough\u2019s famous documentaries, which excel in capturing unique footage of flora and fauna in situ, Life On Air details the intimate experience that humans can have with nature, as well as Attenborough\u2019s vast accomplishments that he\u2019s celebrated behind the scenes. It\u2019s a highly relatable account, one which allows the reader to marvel at the grandness of nature as they travel the world alongside Attenborough. My imagination ran wild as I read, imagining being amongst the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":75992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[6703,6678],"tags":[748,1530,7899,7514,6541],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/att-SOCIAL.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75989"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76001,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75989\/revisions\/76001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}