Ocean – Attenborough David (2025)

From the icy seas around the poles to remote coral islands, David Attenborough has filmed in every ocean habitat on Earth. Together with his long-term collaborator Colin Butfield, he shares the story of our last great wilderness: the ocean, which shapes the land we live on, regulates our climate and creates the air we breathe. Explore eight unique saltwater habitats, from kelp forests, mangroves and coral reefs to the deepest corners of the least-explored ecosystem on the planet, almost 11,000 feet below the surface. The journey features green turtles and blue whales, clownfish and bioluminescent jellyfish, the vampire squid and the “headless chicken monster”, a strange sea cucumber that lives at the very bottom of the ocean. With the warmth, intelligence and wonder associated with David Attenborough’s landmark series, this book reveals a world that is both desperately fragile and astonishingly resilient, with an extraordinary capacity to repair itself. It is not too late to restore this vital habitat and ensure that the marine world becomes even richer and more spectacular.