The People of Paradise (subtitled A Journey through the South Seas) is a six-part documentary film series produced and presented by David Attenborough. The series exhibits the people and geography of Oceania; particularly, of Fiji and Tonga. BBC Television Service (now BBC One) transmitted The People of Paradise in 1960.
David Attenborough wrote a book called Quest in Paradise which recounted both this adventure and Zoo Quest for Paradise Birds. In 1981 and 2018 it was republished with several other early Attenborough books with the 2018 edition known as Further Adventures of a Young Naturalist.
The year the series aired, Harper & Brothers published a corresponding book, People of Paradise, in the United States. Its Library of Congress catalog card number is 61-10234.
In 2012 the BBC released several of its archive programmes in the BBC Four Collections. In the collection Attenborough: The Early Years, compiled by Attenborough, the first 5 episodes of The Peoples of Paradise were included and are now permanently on BBC iPlayer. Why the final episode was not included is unknown.
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