Acknowledgements Map of New Guinea Map of the South Sea Islands Part One: The Birds of Paradise 1: Fowle of the Sunne 2: The People of the Wahgi 3: The Animals of Nondugl 4: Into the Jimi Valley 5: Tabibuga 6: The Axe-Makers 7: Pygmies and a Prospector 8: The Dancing Birds Part Two: The People of Paradise 9: Return to the Pacific 10: The Tusked Pigs 11: The Land Divers of Pentecost 12: Cargo Cult 13: John Frum 14: The Firewalkers of Fiji 15: The Outer Isles of Fiji 16: Double Canoes and Turtle Callers 17: Royal Tonga
David Attenborough was born at Isleworth, Middlesex, in 1926. In 1932 the family moved to Leicester when his father was appointed Principal of the University College, and he was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School and later won a scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge, where he read zoology, geology and mineralogy, and took an Honours Degree in Natural Sciences. In 1952 he joined the B.B.C. as a Talks Producer and became responsible for a number of very successful series on television. It was while planning programmes about natural history that he evolved the idea of filming animals in their natural habitats and then showing the same animals in the studio. The first Zoo Quest expedition went to Sierra Leone and the great popularity of the television series describing his experiences led to his travels in British Guiana, Indonesia, New Guinea and Northern Australia, and the South Sea Islands. His books, Zoo Quest to Guiana, Zoo Quest for a Dragon and Zoo Quest in Paraguay, have achieved similar wide popularity.
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