"On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian...

In 1954, a young David Attenborough was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to travel the world finding rare and elusive animals for London Zoo's collection, and to film the expeditions for the BBC for a new show called Zoo Quest. This is the story of those voyages. Staying with local tribes while trekking in search of giant anteaters in Guyana, Komodo dragons in Indonesia and armadillos in Paraguay, he and the rest of the team battled with cannibal...

"Hi there, I'm Sherlock Bones, a mystery-solving superstar! With my trusty partners, silent Watts and sassy Grace, I can crack any case. This time, there is a MONSTER loose in our museum's new ocean reef exhibit. EEK! Plus, we have a new sidekick, but he can be tricky to keep track of, and he is fond of tank pranks! Join us for another adventure as we seek out the monster and save the museum."-- cover page 4.