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Among Penguins - A Bird Man in Antarctica (Paperback, New)
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Among Penguins - A Bird Man in Antarctica (Paperback, New)
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List price R435
Loot Price R360
Discovery Miles 3 600
You Save R75 (17%)
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The year he graduated from college, 22-year-old Noah Strycker was
dropped by helicopter in a remote Antarctic field camp with two
bird scientists and a three months' supply of frozen food. His
subjects: more than a quarter million penguins. Compact,
industrious, and approachable, the Adelie Penguins who call
Antarctica home visit their breeding grounds each Antarctic summer
to nest and rear their young before returning to sea. Because of
long-term studies, scientists may know more about how these
penguins will adjust to climate change than about any other
creature in the world. Bird scientists like Noah are less well
known. Like the intrepid early explorers of Antarctica, modern
scientists drawn to the frozen continent face an utterly
inhospitable landscape, one that inspires, isolates, and punishes.
With wit, curiosity, and a deep knowledge of his subject, Strycker
recounts the reality of life at the end of the
Earth-thousand-year-old penguin mummies, hurricane-force blizzards,
and day-to-day existence in below freezing temperatures-and delves
deep into a world of science, obsession, and birds. Among Penguins
weaves a captivating tale of penguins and their researchers on the
coldest, driest, highest, and windiest continent on Earth. Birders,
lovers of the Antarctic, and fans of first-person adventure
narratives will be fascinated by Strycker's book.
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