Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-11-12
RRP: £47.00
Price: £45.47
Review Tiger's Child / Oakhill Publishing Limited:
Creator: Michael Prichard
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-01-22
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £10.49
Price: £6.13
Review Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey: A Biography (Books That Changed the World) / Tantor Media, Inc:
Publication date: 1995-11
Review I'm with the Band: Confessions of a True Groupie / Time Warner AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2001-06-18
Dewey code: 291
RRP: £16.16
Price: £22.70
Review Pilgrim of the Heart: Stories of Neem Karoli Baba, Hanuman, and the Devotional Tradition of India / Sounds True Inc.,U.S.:
Creator: Jenny Agutter
Publication date: 2002-11-15
RRP: £11.99
Price: £13.98
Review The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth / Greenpark Media Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-11-06
RRP: £70.44
Price: £110.99
Review Life on Air / Chivers Audio Books:David Attenborough hardly needs any introduction; his voice has accompanied so many of the best natural history programs that have graced our televisions over several decades. Life On Air, his autobiography, tells the story of how he has managed to professionalise his schoolboy interests in such a remarkably successful way. Attenborough's Life On Air began in 1950, having taken a degree in Natural Sciences in the University of Cambridge, done National Service in the Navy, got married, done a year as an editor with an educational publisher, had a son and then answered a BBC recruiting ad in the Times. Turned down for BBC Radio, he was offered a traineeship in BBC TV which was pioneering the medium in Britain and he has never looked back. The rest is TV history and you can read Sir David's personal view of it all in his engaging and highly entertaining book. This is no boring story of the rise and rise of a media mogul in the smoke-filled rooms of Ally Pally and Lime Grove. Having served his apprenticeship producing programmes like Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? and Song Hunter with the famous American folk singer and song collector Alan Lomax, he managed to escape from the confines of overlit studios into the natural world. Zoo Quest began in 1954 with an animal collecting trip to Sierra Leone and David Attenborough had found his metier. Since then he has managed to bring the wonders of the natural world into millions of living rooms around the world and to reach general audiences without patronising them, without any spurious antics, silly voices or dumbing down. His animal and plant subjects are the stars, Attenborough is the master of ceremonies who introduces the acts for our wonder and amazement. [+]But his scope extends way beyond the birds and the bees. In the 1960s, it was suggested that he took up an administrative post-"after all, you won't want to be gallivanting around the world when you are 50". Fortunately, he did not abandon gallivanting for admin but went freelance, studied anthropology and helped extend our view of native peoples and sympathies for their life styles. He went on to become responsible for coming up with famous BBC TV series such as Kenneth Clark's incredibly successful Civilisation series, followed by Bronowski's The Ascent of Man. Inevitably, he did become one of the BBC suits but one that wore a camouflage jacket. What is remarkable is that Attenborough has managed to do it for so long without really changing his own style too much. He has not had to because the technology has changed and so he has constantly been able to give new views and insights into the details of life on Earth. Writing pretty much as he speaks, it is easy to hear his voice, dry sense of humour and generosity coming through all the time. Do not expect to read personal details, navel-gazing or malicious gossip-that is not his style. The only personal note comes at the end with the death of his wife in 1997. Over 100 photos associated with the huge range of programmes he has been intimately involved with decorate Life On Air, a fascinating personal story of our times. He says that he knows of "no pleasure deeper than that which comes from contemplating the natural world and trying to understand it"; he certainly manages to convey that in Life On Air. -Douglas Palmer.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-10-12
RRP: £59.92
Price: £61.91
Review Blood and Sand / Oakhill Publishing Limited:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-03-01
Dewey code: 822.33
RRP: £12.49
Price: £7.27
Review The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street / Tantor Media, Inc:
Creator: Simon Vance
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-11-21
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £25.49
Price: £14.83
Review Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography (Books That Changed the World) / Tantor Media, Inc:
Creator: Todd McLaren
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-05-15
Dewey code: 364
RRP: £35.49
Price: £22.46
Review Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride / Tantor Media, Inc:
Publication date: 1999-05-01
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £8.51
Price: £3.89
Review All Things Censored: Huntingdon and S.C.I.Greene Prison Sessions: 1 / AK Press:
Creator: Simon Vance
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-07-24
Dewey code: 355.02
RRP: £25.49
Price: £15.47
Review Clausewitz's on War: A Biography (Books That Changed the World) / Tantor Media, Inc:
Creator: Christopher Oxford
Publication date: 2005-10
RRP: £56.50
Price: £58.49
Review "Nelson": A Personal History / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Joss Ackland
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-11-15
RRP: £11.99
Price: £13.98
Review The Chronicle: Vol 2 / Greenpark Media Ltd:
Creator: Renee Raudman
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-07-09
Dewey code: 611.00711
RRP: £17.49
Price: £9.97
Review Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab / Tantor Media, Inc:
Publication date: 2005-01-17
RRP: £6.99
Price: £8.97
Review Maximum Prodigy / Chrome Dreams:
Publication date: 2004-05-01
RRP: £12.95
Price: £14.94
Review No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs: The Inspiring Story of Lord Taylor of Warwick / Centre Publishing:
Creator: Joyce Bean
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-03-01
Dewey code: 940.548673092
RRP: £38.49
Price: £24.53
Review My Father's Secret War: A Memoir / Tantor Media, Inc:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-06-29
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £46.94
Price: £64.49
Review A Parrot in the Pepper Tree / Chivers Audio Books:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-09-13
RRP: £16.99
Price: £10.24
Review Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World / Random House Audiobooks:
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Tiger's Child, Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey: A Biography (Books That Changed the World), I'm with the Band: Confessions of a True Groupie, Pilgrim of the Heart: Stories of Neem Karoli Baba, Hanuman, and the Devotional Tradition of India, The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Life on Air, Blood and Sand, The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street, Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography (Books That Changed the World), Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride, All Things Censored: Huntingdon and S.C.I.Greene Prison Sessions: 1, Clausewitz's on War: A Biography (Books That Changed the World), "Nelson": A Personal History, The Chronicle: Vol 2, Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab, Maximum Prodigy, No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs: The Inspiring Story of Lord Taylor of Warwick, My Father's Secret War: A Memoir, A Parrot in the Pepper Tree, Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World |
