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A review by elenap
Adventures of a Young Naturalist: The Zoo Quest Expeditions by David Attenborough
4.0
What a ride! I was given the opportunity to travel to Guyana, Indonesia, and Paraguay with Sir David Attenborough, or to be more exact, with David. Because in this book you see his adventures in wilderness and less known territories as a 20-something-year-old. It's a window into a world that has changed so much through a lens that doesn't bring any moral colonial superiority.
The book was lovely, but Attenborough is a fantastic storyteller and way more charismatic on screen, and for that we will forever be grateful.
What impressed me was his resourcefulness, tenacity, utter fearlessness, and curiosity about the world and nature (like we didn't know that already). Back in the 50s, the infrastructure, transportation, and communication systems were infinitely less established than they are now, and still, together with colleagues and friends picked up along the way, he managed to travel to wild corners of the world filming for BBC and bringing back animals considered to be mythical for the London Zoo. It's honestly more of an inspirational book if nothing else. If he could do this back then in those rough conditions, you can do way more now. Well, probably not in the literal sense if you're a woman, but I'm not going to go that route.
I can't give this book a hard 5, but it is definitely a 4+ star one. Highly recommend it to animal, adventure, and nature lovers. I might listen to it as an audiobook as well in the future, seems such a shame to miss out of that legendary voice.
The book was lovely, but Attenborough is a fantastic storyteller and way more charismatic on screen, and for that we will forever be grateful.
What impressed me was his resourcefulness, tenacity, utter fearlessness, and curiosity about the world and nature (like we didn't know that already). Back in the 50s, the infrastructure, transportation, and communication systems were infinitely less established than they are now, and still, together with colleagues and friends picked up along the way, he managed to travel to wild corners of the world filming for BBC and bringing back animals considered to be mythical for the London Zoo. It's honestly more of an inspirational book if nothing else. If he could do this back then in those rough conditions, you can do way more now. Well, probably not in the literal sense if you're a woman, but I'm not going to go that route.
I can't give this book a hard 5, but it is definitely a 4+ star one. Highly recommend it to animal, adventure, and nature lovers. I might listen to it as an audiobook as well in the future, seems such a shame to miss out of that legendary voice.