The Living Planet:
The Living Planet by David Attenborough is a twelve chapter book about the climate and environment of the Earth’s many regions. Each chapter is about a different climatic region, such as frozen or grassy regions, and the organisms that inhabit it. The Living Planet is very informative and is packed with tons of interesting facts and is also quite enjoyable. However, one problem that I found with it was that it wasn’t very well organized in a few places. The setting seemed to always jump, for example, in Chapter Two it would be telling you about the snow in the Himalayas in one paragraph and then just suddenly jump to talking about birds and mammals that live in other cold areas, then talk about the lobelia plant of Mount Kenya in Africa and then return to the Himalayas. This didn’t happen too often, about once every other chapter or two and after a while got rather annoying. I did enjoy the way the Chapters were set up though, so that each chapter described the environment of a specific climate or region of the world, but sometimes the information inside the chapters could get disorganized is all.
That aside, much of the information in this book is interesting and fun to read about. Anybody who reads this will surely learn a lot, it is written so it’s easy to understand for most people. Aside from the random topic jumping it is well written and everything is described in rich detail. On almost every page there is a large, well-photographed picture of something that was mentioned on the page next to it. I would recommend this book to anybody who is interested about different climates of the world and the organisms that live there.
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