Human Planet: Nature's Greatest Human Stories

by Timothy Allen, Brian Leith, Dale Templar

Human Planet is the first natural history documentary series to turn the camera on ourselves, the human species. Taking the same approach as Planet Earth, it will explain how human beings have learnt to live on every habitat, from our origins in the Jungle to our domination of Grasslands to the Desert, Ocean, Rivers, the creation of our own environment, Urban, and the challenges of the Arctic mountains.

But this is also a story about how we have learnt to adapt to the most inhospitable landscapes and work in partnership with other animal species. From the Bajau sea gypsies to the Korowai tribe of West Papau who live in treehouses, the honey birds in Kenya that lead the Masai people to honey, the men who fish with dolphins in Brazil and the Papuan tribesmen who mimic the courtship dances of the birds of paradise, this is the remarkable story of our relationship with nature.

Genres: Photography, Anthropology, Science

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 20, 2011

Reviews

[Karlissa J.]

Learning about cultures around the world inspires me, and this book contains tales of incredible human skills, strategies, and dare-devils. However, the design (layout) of the book is quite basic, so it doesn't catch my attention the way some resources do.

[Manuel Sánchez]

I read this in 2011

[Paul]

An excellent book to complement the TV series. Stunning photography, but could have had more details about the people in the book as well.

[Holly]

Amazing photos