Memoirs of a Buccaneer by William Dampier
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs by John Foxe
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Leo Tolstoy
Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton
Lucretius by Aldus Manutius
The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
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Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and natural historian. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural history documentary series forming the Life collection that together constitute a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on Earth. He is a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. He is the only person to have won BAFTAs for programmes in each of black and white, colour, HD, 3D and 4K.
Sir David Attenborough reflects on what printed books have meant to him throughout his life, including his first memories of books and his personal favourites.