A new model of David Attenborough’s groundbreaking Life on the planet.

Winner of Best nonfiction Audiobook at the New York Radio Awards 2019.

Shortlisted for Top Audiobook at the Specsavers Country wide Book Awards 2018.

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

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

David about Lifestyle on Earth Attenborough’s memorable ending up in gorillas became an iconic second for millions of tv viewers. Life on Earth, the series and associated book, fundamentally changed just how we watch and connect to the natural globe, setting a new standard of quality, influencing a generation of nature lovers. Told via an examination of pet and plant life, this is an astonishing celebration from the progression of life on the planet, with a cast of characters drawn from the complete range of microorganisms that have ever lived on this globe. Attenborough’s perceptive, dynamic method of the progression of an incredible number of varieties of living organisms takes the audience on an memorable journey of breakthrough from the 1st spark of existence to the blue and green wonder we know today.

Now, to celebrate the 40th anniversary from the book’s initial publication, David Attenborough offers revisited Life on Earth, completely upgrading and adding to the original text message, taking accounts of modern scientific discoveries from around the globe. This special anniversary edition offers a fitting tribute for an enduring wildlife classic, destined to enthral the era who noticed it when initial published and bring 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 appears at the start of each chapter to provide a completely immersive connection with the habitat and some of the species described. A full set of the songs, as they appear in the audiobook, is definitely available below.

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

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

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

• Section Three, The Initial Forests – Geysir and geothermal activity in Haukadalur hot springs in Iceland. This monitor also features the Strokkur geysir erupting.

• Chapter 4, 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 documented at a depth of 8m, Moray Firth, Scotland.

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

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

• Section Eight, Lords from the Air flow – Springtime dawn chorus with nightingale, Hambleton solid wood, Rutland Water nature reserve, UK.

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

• Chapter 10, Theme and Variation – Common Pipistrelle bats echolocating after sunset, Holystone woodland, Northumberland.

• Section Eleven, The Hunters as well as the Hunted – Discovered hyena contact phone calls at midnight in the Masai Mara, Kenya.

• Section Twelve, A Life in The Trees and shrubs – Dark howler monkeys phoning across the tree canopy at sunrise in Belize.

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

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