How reading a book aged 9 ignited Sir David Attenborough’s passion for natural world – and helped him inspire millions

AS a boy, Sir David Attenborough was leafing through an old book when he stumbled upon the words that changed his life. They were in a 19th Century work called The Malay Archipelago, which contained a description by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace of his emotions when he first saw a bird of paradise in the...