Julian Pettifer Robin Brown NATURE WATCH First Edition Signed
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Julian Pettifer Robin Brown NATURE WATCH First Edition Signed
First edition, first print hardback of NATURE WATCH by Julian Pettifer and Robin Brown and published by Michael Joseph Ltd., London in 1981. Signed and inscribed by Pettifer on the title page.The book is in very good condition (Clean black cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine) with only minor wear to the pictorial dust jacket which is not price clipped (light creasing to edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
Julian Pettifer was born in 1935 and grew up in the Wiltshire countryside. These early surroundings, combined with his fathers interest in animals and wildlife as a vet, left their mark on the young Pettifer, sparking an interest that would go on to inform a lifelong career as a television and radio presenter.
After a stint with the army in Korea and then graduating from Cambridge, Pettifer went on to, in his own words, accidentally begin a career in journalism at Independent Television (ITV) in 1958. He started by presenting a daily news and current affairs show and it is here that he began to realise the emerging convergence of nature and current affairs. This view was further entrenched when Pettifer began working at the BBC on the Tonight programme where he was heavily involved with the reporting of the war, and wider situation, in Vietnam.
It was not until the 1980s that Julian fully immersed himself into the wildlife film industry. This began with him working with Robin Brown on a series called Naturewatch. Here Pettifer worked with a number of personalities such as Miriam Rothschild, Konrad Lorenz and Carl Jones to name but a few.
Later on in his career he made a number of feature programmes about natural events such as the El-Nino phenomenon, as well as programmes about the emergence of Climate Change. Julian is now retired but he continues to travel and write.
Robin Brown grew up in Southern Rhodesia and from a young age has been interested and involved in wildlife conservation. Following university in South Africa Brown got a job at the Rhodesia Herald, eventually going on to become Reuters parliamentary correspondent for Central Africa at the young age of 20. At a similarly young age he became controller of Rhodesian television when he was just 24.
It was whilst in this capacity that he met a young David Attenborough who would later offer him a job at the BBC when he was forced to return to the UK after being critical of Ian Smiths white minority rule in Rhodesia. Although Brown didnt accept Attenboroughs job offer, he did accept a job in television from Bob Heller at Associated Television (ATV).
He started by making a programme called Animal Wars for ATV and would go on to make a further 4 for the company. As well as ATV he made documentaries for the Discovery Channel and National Geographic of which his productions about Whales are most noted.
In 1982 he paired up with Julian Pettifer to produce Nature Watch. A series with a run of 68 episodes, the pair pioneered a new type of format in which the eccentric, human, wildlife enthusiast were documented as much as the animals themselves.
Robin Brown has written a plethora of works about Wildlife which engage with the natural world, politics, Africa, conservation and more; a pursuit he is continuing with in semi-retirement. During his career Browns roles have included being executive producer of natural history at Central Television, as well as creative director for Oxford Scientific Films.
Naturewatch is the title of a long-running Central TV series - six series have been broadcast since 1982, and the programme has been shown throughout the world. The nature-watchers in this book are at the forefront of conservation in the world today, and are selected from over 80 who have featured in the TV series. The book describes their work with nature in many of its diverse forms.
The reader can meet and learn about the work of a wide range of people, from Noel Snyder, who has helped to save the Californian condor from almost certain extinction, to Eric Zimmen, who lives with a family of wolves in southern Germany, and has won their trust so completely that they treat him as a member of the pack.
Naturewatch is a fascinating and beautifully illustrated book about thirteen of the world's greatest watchers of nature. The naturalist - whether a professional scientist or an enthusiastic amateur - belongs to a rare community of people.
This is best described by that most eminent of nature watchers, Konrad Lorenz: 'You have to love your object of study. You cannot be a good naturalist if you do not love your subject or even delight in investigating it. It is an absolutely unaffected, irrational pleasure.'
Naturewatch reveals the private lives of animals and plants as seen through the eyes of these naturalists - men and women from all over the world who have devoted their lives to the study of natural history, a study which often began in their back gardens.
From the study of deadly poisonous funnel-web spiders to the propagation of wild flowers, from the modern pressures which threaten the birdlife of the Shetland Islands and the rain forests of Papua New Guinea, each of these naturalists is chiefly concerned with conservation; all are passionately aware of the ignorance that daily condemns hundreds of species to extinction: their mission is to further our understanding of nature, to bring us back into touch with the natural world.
207 pages. Illustrated with colour and black & white photographs throughout.
ISBN: 0 7181 1994 0
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