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A perfect planet : our one in a billion world revealed / Huw Cordey ; foreword by Alastair Fothergill.
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Cordey, Huw
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A perfect planet : our one in a billion world revealed / Huw Cordey ; foreword by Alastair Fothergill.
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London : BBC Books, 2020.
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Description
324 pages : colour illustrations ; 30 cm.
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Includes index.
This book is published to accompany the television series entitles A perfect planet, first broadcast on BBC One in 2021.
Contents
The sun / producer: Nick Shoolingin-Jordan -- Weather / producer: Ed Charles -- Oceans / producer: Ed Charles -- Volcanoes / producer: Huw Cordey -- Humans / producer: Nick Shoolingin-Jordan.
Summary
The conditions of Earth are not just good for life, they are perfect. Everything about our planet -- its size, its distance from the Sun, its spin and tilt, its moon -- is perfectly suited to our existence, and our planet's forces serve to nurture its spectacular biodiversity. This book shows in stunning detail how Earth has always been more than the sum of its parts. Unlike any other astronomical body, it is a living world. Focusing on four key natural forces -- weather, ocean currents, solar energy and volcanoes -- Huw Cordey reveals to us new levels of this living world, a place populated with astonishing characters living remarkable lives. From Arctic wolves prowling moonlit landscapes or wood frogs, frozen in winter and magically thawing back to life, to flamingos flying thousands of miles to a vast volcanic lake in Africa to breed, we see time and again how animals are perfectly adapted to whatever the environment throws at them. Packed with over 250 full-colour images and stills from the BBC natural history series, A Perfect Planet is a stunning exploration of life on Earth -- life that is increasingly precious and rare.
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Earth sciences
Solar energy
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Ocean
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Fothergill, Alastair
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