My penguin year : life among the emperors / Lindsay McCrae.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCrae, Lindsay (Photographer), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emperor penguin.

McCrae, Lindsay (Photographer)--Travel--Antarctica.

McCrae, Lindsay.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 292 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color portraits ; 24 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2019.

Summary:

A "remarkable memoir" (Nature) of life with an emperor penguin colony, gorgeously illustrated with 32 pages of exclusive photography.

For 337 days, award-winning wildlife cameraman Lindsay McCrae intimately followed 11,000 emperor penguins amid the singular beauty of Antarctica. This is his masterful chronicle of one penguin colony's astonishing journey of life, death, and rebirth--and of the extraordinary human experience of living amongst them in the planet's harshest environment. A miracle occurs each winter in Antarctica. As temperatures plummet 60 degrees below zero and the sea around the remote southern continent freezes, emperors--the largest of all penguins--begin marching up to 100 miles over solid ice to reach their breeding grounds. They are the only animals to breed in the depths of this, the worst winter on the planet; and in an unusual role reversal, the males incubate the eggs, fasting for over 100 days to ensure they introduce their chicks safely into their new frozen world. My Penguin Year recounts McCrae's remarkable adventure to the end of the Earth. He observed every aspect of a breeding emperor's life, facing the inevitable sacrifices that came with living his childhood dream, and grappling with the personal obstacles that, being over 15,000km away from the comforts of home, almost proved too much. Out of that experience, he has written an unprecedented portrait of Antarctica's most extraordinary residents.

Contents:

1 To the Other End of the Earth p. 5

2 The Emperors Return p. 49

3 The Beginnings of a Dynasty p. 85

4 The Next Generation is on its Way p. 121

5 The Worst Winter on Earth p. 153

6 New Life on the Ice p. 189

7 A Spring Like No Other p. 225

8 My Final Few Weeks p. 263.

Notes:

Originally published in the UK in 2019 by Hodder & Stoughton, a Hachette UK company.

Other Edition:

Reproduction of: 9781529325454 McCrae, Lindsay. London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2019

ISBN:

9780062971364

0062971360

OCLC:

1126650720

Publisher Number:

99983584167