DVDs and Book
The series was available as a 3-disc DVD set (BBCDVD1089, released 3 December 2001), including interviews with the production team, a photo gallery and three additional programmes:
- Making Waves: the making of The Blue Planet (50 mins)
- Deep Trouble: an ecological documentary (50 mins)
- Blue: a five-minute theatrical short
The first DVD has now been superseded by a 4-disc Special Edition (BBCDVD1792, released 3 October 2005), which features three extra programmes:
- The Abyss
- Dive to Shark Volcano
- Amazon Abyss
In the US, there is a different 5-disk Special Edition (BBC040754, released October 2, 2007). It contains the featured presentations as well as a 5th disk containing 4 special presentations:
- Amazon Abyss: discover an array of creatures living in the Amazon
- Dive to Shark Volcano: venture to Cocoa Island, an underwater volcano
- Beneath the Tides: explore an estuary in winter
- Antarctica
The accompanying book, The Blue Planet: A Natural History of the Oceans by Andrew Byatt, Alastair Fothergill and Martha Holmes (with a foreword by David Attenborough), was published by BBC Books on 27 September 2001 (ISBN 0-563-38498-0).
Read more about this topic: The Blue Planet
Famous quotes containing the word book:
“When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand—a center of gravity.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)