Name: Watching
Price: 507.00 ZAR
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Author: Desmond Morris
ISBN: 9789895351619

Type

Physical Book

Author

Desmond Morris

Publisher

TSB

Language

English

Pages

672

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.9 x 16.3 x 5.1 cm

Weight

1.28 kg.

ISBN13

9789895351619

Edited in

Portugal

Synopsis "Watching"

Desmond may have given me an insight into human behaviour, but he's given me lots of laughs, too. We think the same things are funny, and he's a brilliant raconteur. --Sir David Attenborough This is a book about the joys of watching the world. It is autobiographical, but it is not about me; it is about what I have observed. There is no agonised soul-searching, no sneaky kiss-and-tell, no pretentious journey to find the 'real me'. I am not interested in myself. But I am fascinated by the world around me and what I have been able to see and record over a period of six decades of professional observation, first as a student of animal behaviour, and then as a student of human behaviour. Desmond Morris was born in 1928. Educated at Birmingham and Oxford universities, he became the Curator of Mammals at London Zoo in 1959, a post he held for eight years.In 1967 he published The Naked Ape which has sold over 10 million copies worldwide and has changed the way we view our own species forever.An accomplished artist, TV presenter, film maker and writer, Desmond Morris's books have been published in over thirty-six countries.

Desmond Morris

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Desmond John Morris is a British zoologist, ethologist, and painter. He was born in the English countryside, and at 14 lost his father. He was married to historian Ramona Baulch, co-author of several of his books and mother of his son.

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