Description

• First Printing [William Collins, London, 1990]; 302 pages; red cloth, gold titling to spine, small mark at top of title page, an excellent copy; in like illustrated, unclipped dustjacket, a little creasing at bottom of rear flap
• Signed by Sir David Attenborough to publisher’s titled bookplate, glued to first page [ffep]
• Going beyond the evolutionary & animal development themes of previous books, Trials of Life examines animal behaviour – why a lion will kill a rival’s cubs, and queues form underwater to receive the services of a cleaner-fish!
• ISBN: 0-00-219912-2 / 0002199122