{"product_id":"watching","title":"Watching by Desmond Morris (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDesmond 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about the joys of watching the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesmond 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn accomplished artist, TV presenter, film maker and writer, Desmond Morris's books have been published in over thirty-six countries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somiibooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53843167379799,"sku":"9789895351619","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/9789895351619.jpg?v=1782067489","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/watching","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}