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We have selected a range of the
BBC's best nature DVDs and are offering them at 10% discount from now
until December 31st 2006. Perfect viewing for everyone interested in
natural history; all in stock and available from NHBS Environment
Bookstore.
Alastair Fothergill
The makers of The Blue Planet present the
epic story of life on Earth. Five years in
production, over 2000 days in the field, using 40
cameramen filming across 200 locations, this is
the ultimate portrait of our planet.
A fantastic visual experience that combines action, wonderful
locations and our planet's
best-loved, wildest and most elusive creatures. Planet
Earth takes you to places you have never seen
before, to witness sights and sounds you may
never experience again.
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DVD | 2006 | #160500 | £39.99 £35.99
Paul Stewart and Tilda Swinton
The Galapagos archipelago is made up of thirteen
main islands and more than sixty other islets,
rocks and reefs, scattered over four hundred
kilometres of open ocean. Galapagos is a rare insight into an incredible
landscape and an exquisite
evolutionary habitat that Darwin described as a
'world within itself'. Both fragile and furious,
the Galapagos is unlike any other place on earth.
This 2-disc set contains a special feature:
Lonesome George and the Battle for Galapagos
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DVD | 2006 | #162057 | £19.99 £17.99
BBC
A BBC series profiling the lives of Africa's big
cats over a two-year period in the Masai Mara,
Kenya. Series One follows the Marsh Pride of lions
that rely on Simba to defend them when two young
males from another territory threaten them. Also
features Kike the cheetah and Bella the leopard.
Series Two follows the unlikely pairing of Cheza
and Sala and re-visits Kike and Bella.
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DVD | 2006 | #158818 | £13.00 £11.50
David Sington and Simon Lamb
Earth Story unravels the secrets of our planet and
brings it alive. The series took three years to
make, cost £3 million and was filmed all over the
world, from the craters of active volcanoes to the
ocean floor. Combining live-action
footage with state-of-the-art computer graphics
which enable us to travel back and forwards
through time, this is a fantastic journey of
scientific discovery and a comprehensive history
of life - in all its forms - on the planet.
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DVD | 2006 | #160499 | £19.99 £17.99
David Attenborough
This release is a collection of the one-off
programmes that David Attenborough has recorded
over his first 50 years in broadcasting.
Episodes Include:
Attenborough In Paradise (Broadcast 08/04/1996);
The Lost Gods Of Easter Island (Broadcast
24/04/2000); The Amber Time Machine (Broadcast 15/02/2004);
Bowerbirds: The Art Of Seduction (Broadcast
17/12/2000);
The Song Of The Earth (Broadcast 23/12/2000);
A Blank On The Map (Broadcast 29/12/1971);
Life On Air (Broadcast 20/11/2002).
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DVD | 2005 | #154123 | £15.99 £13.99
David Attenborough
Attenborough covers not just bugs, beetles and
creepy-crawlies, but scorpions and centipedes,
mites and mantids, spiders and dragonflies. And
not just life in the undergrowth, but the dramatic
battles between predator and prey that are
happening in the corner of your living room and in
your larder!
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DVD | 2005 | #154216 | £24.99 £22.50
Due to the extreme pressure and perpetual darkness,
the ocean depths have only been seen by torchlight
- until now. From the makers of the Walking
with... series comes an enthralling exploration of
Earth's final frontier seen through the eyes of a sperm whale. Following a young male
from infancy to old age, the marinescape comes
vividly to life: the impossibly deep canyons, the
underwater volcanoes, and the spectacular mountain
ranges.
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DVD | 2006 | #160496 | £15.99 £13.99
Andrew Sachs
Smell your way across an ocean as a salmon does.
See, through the multi-aspected eye of a fly, what
a human hand looks like when it is about to
strike. Amazing effects reveal the secrets of
animal perception.
This BBC DVD contains the following episodes:
Sixth Sense;
Seeing Sense;
Sound Sense;
Super Scents;
Sense of Timing;
Making Sense;
Plus the special feature: The Making of
Supersense.
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DVD | 2006 | #160498 | £17.99 £15.99
Neil Nightingale, Jeni Clevers, Neil Pearson and Mary Summerill
Australia is unique: isolated from the rest of the world for 45
million years, this huge island contains an enormous diversity of
distinctive species - 90% of its reptiles and 70% of its birds are
endemic. Wild Down Under reveals how
this ancient land of contrasts was created and explores its unique
landscapes and wildlife, and the impact of human settlement.
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DVD | 2003 | #141712 | £19.99 £17.99
David Attenborough
To celebrate David Attenborough's 50 years with the BBC, this
specially compiled DVD contains some of the most memorable
images from the world famous BBC Natural History Unit. This collection of some of
the most celebrated Natural History clips includes highlights such as Attenborough's encounter with the mountain gorillas of
Rwanda, and killer whales crashing up a beach after seals.
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DVD | 2003 | #129461 | £15.99 £13.99
Michael Bright
Ground-breaking wildlife guide to South America. This continent of extremes boasts the longest mountain chain in the world - the Andes - and the mightiest river - the Amazon - the largest rainforest, the driest desert and the richest seas. The BBC series Andes to Amazon travelled the length and breadth of this lost world to uncover its natural riches. DVD extras include a
Wildlife On One Feature on the Great Otter.
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DVD | 2005 | #154117 | £19.99 £17.99
David Attenborough
Landmark volume accompanying the ten-part BBC television
series, examining how mammals have adapted to varying environments.
Life of Mammals covers over 4000 species. Episodes include: The
Pioneers, The Insect Eaters, The Root Raiders and Seed Stealers, The Leaf Eaters,
The Hunters, The Omnivores, The Return to the Water, The Tree-Dwellers, The
Grasping Hands, and The Ultimate
Lords. The DVD contains
behind the scenes footage, the original score, photo gallery and
fact files.
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DVD | 2003 | #135366 | £39.99 £35.99
Michael Palin
Palin's sixth televised international journey takes him to a
mountain range of mystery, adventure and challenge. Facing altitudes as high as 17,500 feet as well as some
of the world's deepest gorges, Palin also passed through political
flashpoints like Pakistan's remote north-west frontier,
terrorist-torn Kashmir and the mountains of Nagaland, only recently
open to visitors. He also had a brush with the Maoists while filming
in Nepal and advice from the Dalai Lama before crossing into Tibet.
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DVD | 2004 | #149093 | £24.99 £22.50
Patrick Morris, Amanda Barrett, Andrew Murrary and Marguerite Smits van Oyen
Wild Africa shows how a once stable continent has been
fragmented into six extraordinary ecosystems, and how these
different habitats have catalysed the evolution of many
remarkable animals and plants in each. The focus is on the
heart of the African landscape, revealing how the resident
wildlife has adapted to thrive in its unique natural environment.
DVD extras include a Wildlife on
One feature: Wildebeast: Super Herd
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DVD | 2005 | #154122 | £19.99 £17.99
BBC Worldwide
This definitive natural history of the world's oceans covers
everything from popular shores and teeming shallows to the
mysterious open depths. Two-thirds of the planet is covered by the
oceans and yet they remain largely unexplored and certainly
under-filmed. This series changes all that and subsequently changes
our views of the deep. Includes 3 new programmes.
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DVD | 2005 | #154804 | £29.99 £26.99
David Attenborough
This is vintage Attenborough (originally broadcast as a BBC TV
series in 1998). Here, he uncovers new research into the behaviour
of the most popular and perhaps the best adapted life forms on
Earth, investigating the secrets of birds' great success - their
remarkable strategies for finding food, their complex social
systems, and their ingenious and often bizarre ways of mating and
breeding.
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DVD | 2000 | #113193 | £34.99 £31.50
David Attenborough
Attenborough brings his matter-of-fact clarity to discuss the
latest scientific research on the state of the planet with
explanations on rainforest destruction, global warming, extinction
of species, rising sea-levels, drought and meteoric
collisions. Over the course of three programmes, he works with
experts to ask whether nature really is in a crisis of species
extinction, a quest which
takes him on a truly global trail.
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DVD | 2004 | #147713 | £15.99 £13.50
David Attenborough
Presents a fascinating view of the plant world, where events happen
on a different timescale from ours. Though not obvious to the naked
eye, plants are constantly on the move: developing, fighting,
avoiding or exploiting predators or neighbours, struggling to find
food, to reproduce and to find and hold a place in the sun.
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DVD | 2003 | #140197 | £19.99 £17.99
David Attenborough
The full 12 x 50 minute series which was first transmitted back in
1990.
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DVD | 2004 | #149097 | £29.99 £26.99
David Attenborough
Four disc DVD box set containing Eagle, Leopard, Serpent and
Tiger. Episodes also available individually; see below.
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DVD | 2004 | #147722 | £24.99 £22.50
David Attenborough
Few birds have captured the human imagination as deeply as the
eagle and in this remarkable film, now available on DVD, aerial
photography captures the dramatic life of eagles as never seen
before.
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DVD | 2004 | #147715 | £7.99 £6.99
Narrated by David Attenborough, this film ventures into the night,
and follows the lives of two leopards in Zambia's Luangwa Valley,
to reveal the night-time secrets of the cat that walks on its own.
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DVD | 2004 | #147716 | £7.99 £6.99
David Attenborough
One of the most successful species on earth is also one of the
least documented. Miniaturised cameras reveal the snakes' world for
the first time from their point of view. Head-mounted cameras
capture gripping images of the world's most dangerous snakes
hunting and overcoming their prey. Using high-speed photography,
x-ray imaging and state-of-the-art computer graphics, this is the
most ambitious TV study of snakes yet attempted.
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DVD | 2004 | #147718 | £7.99 £6.99
David Attenborough
After 25 years of the Project Tiger Scheme operating in the Madhya
Pradesh, these magnificent animals have become more trusting,
permitting an extraordinary intimate film which follows them from
sunrise to sunset, in monsoon rains and in shimmering heat.
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DVD | 2004 | #147717 | £7.99 £6.99
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