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A Polar Affair - Antarctica's Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins (Hardcover)
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A Polar Affair - Antarctica's Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins (Hardcover)
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George Murray Levick was the physician on Robert Falcon Scott's
tragic Antarctic expedition of 1910. Marooned for an Antarctic
winter, Levick passed the time by becoming the first man to study
penguins up close. His findings were so shocking to Victorian
morals that they were quickly suppressed and seemingly lost to
history. A century later, Lloyd Spencer Davis rediscovers Levick
and his findings during the course of his own scientific adventures
in Antarctica. Levick's long-suppressed manuscript reveals not only
an incredible survival story, but one that will change our
understanding of an entire species. A Polar Affair reveals the last
untold tale from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. It is
perhaps the greatest of all of those stories-but why was it hidden
to begin with? The ever-fascinating and charming penguin holds the
key. Moving deftly between both Levick's and Davis's explorations,
observations and comparisons in biology over the course of a
century, A Polar Affair reveals cutting-edge findings about
ornithology, in which the sex lives of penguins are the jumping-off
point for major new insights into the underpinnings of evolutionary
biology itself.
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