The author's youthful fascination with David Attenborough's “Trials of Life” was the first step toward a lifetime of travel.
Published in 1990 and designed to accompany the nature documentary series of the same name, it’s a book about animal behavior, split into chapters — “Growing Up,” “Home-making,” “Friends and Rivals” — describing different stages of the life cycle.
When I laid hands on my copy of “The Trials of Life,” it quickly became a favorite repository of bookish knowledge. I received it in glossy hardback for Christmas, and it was my most treasured present, the one that, for days afterward, I carried around with me from room to room like a talisman.The premise is straightforward. “My concern here is to describe the happenings, rather than the psychological and evolutionary mechanisms that produce them,” Attenborough writes.
The truth, after all, is that my copy of “The Trials” was more than the sum of its pictures and words. I distinctly remember that my mum’s bookshelves stored an earlier Attenborough book, “.” This one was a paperback, and its spine was cracked with use, evidence that it had been a favorite of my dad’s, who had died when I was an infant.
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