DK Eyewitness Books is a 59-book series with 59 released primary works first released in 1960 with contributions by Simon James, Steve Parker, Tim Hammond, Alex Arthur, James Putnam, Susanna van Rose, Robert F. Symes, R.R. Harding, Michael Tambini, Neil Ardley, Miranda MacQuitty, Pearson, Anne., Hugh Hornby, Douglas Arthur Hill, Robin Kerrod, David Burnie, William G. Crampton, Cathy Gaulter, George Hart, Joe Cribb, Rupert Matthews, Jonathan N. Tubb, S. Peter Dance, Juliet Clutton-Brock, Elizabeth Baquedano, Ann Newmark, Laura Buller, Ian Redmond, Christopher Gravett, Vassili Papastavrou, Brian Lane, Richard Platt, Simon Adams, John Stanchack, WO DE Brian Ward, Jayne Parsons, Tony Black, Richard Walker, Stuart Murray, Peter Chrisp, Philip Wilkinson, Martin Sheen, Roger Bridgman, Edward Sibley Barnard, Philip Steele, Brian Cosgrove, and Jacqueline Mitton.