In his almost thirty-year tenure at the BBC Natural History Unit,
ALASTAIR FOTHERGILL was responsible for the landmark series The
Blue Planet, Planet Earth, and Frozen Planet, among a range of
productions. Since 2006, he has also worked for Disney, directing
six wildlife movies for its Disneynature label. In 2012, he set up
Silverback Films with Keith Scholey, which produced The Hunt series
for the BBC and Our Planet for Netflix, the first natural history
Netflix original documentary series. This book is Fothergill’s
fifth. A fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and recipient of
its gold medal, he also has honorary doctorates from the
universities of Durham, Hull, York St. John, and Bristol. He lives
in Bristol with his wife, two sons, and two Jack Russell
terriers.
Raised in East Africa, KEITH SCHOLEY studied zoology at the
University of Bristol, gaining both a BSc and PhD. In 1982, he
joined the BBC Natural History Unit as a researcher on the David
Attenborough series The Living Planet. Later he became a producer
and then series producer, running series including Prisoners of the
Sun, Wildlife on One, and the Wildlife Specials and creating and
producing Big Cat Diary. In 1998, he became head of the BBC Natural
History Unit and subsequently controller of all BBC Factual
Productions. He is now is the joint director of Silverback Films,
based in Bristol, where he has directed and produced three Disney
nature feature films--African Cats, Bears, and Dolphin Reef--and
been responsible for the Discovery series North America and Deadly
Islands and the Netflix original documentary series Our Planet.
An author and journalist based in London, FRED PEARCE is a former
news editor of New Scientist magazine, and he has been its
environment consultant since 1992, reporting from eighty-seven
countries. He also writes regularly for the Yale Environment 360
and the Guardian, as well as other UK newspapers. He won a lifetime
achievement award for his journalism from the Association of
British Science Writers in 2011 and was voted UK Environment
Journalist of the Year in 2001. His recent books include Fallout,
The New Wild, When the Rivers Run Dry, Earth: Then and Now, and
Confessions of an Eco Sinner, which have been translated into
twenty-four languages.
Praise for Blue Planet:
"This stunning new book reveals the secrets of our water planet. .
. .The plant and animal life adapted to each environment are
depicted in beautiful photographs. . . .The informative text is
conversational and highly readable."
--Booklist
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