Empire Antarctica ice, silence & emperor penguins
Describes the author's time working as a basecamp doctor at Antarctica's Halley research station and his fascination with the emperor penguin community that shared the icy continent with him.
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Berkeley :
Counterpoint,
[2013]
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Empire Antarctica : |b ice, silence & emperor penguins / |c Gavin Francis. |
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| 500 | |a "First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Chatto & Windus"--Title page verso. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface : a glimpse from the ice -- Imagining Antarctica -- The axis of the Atlantic -- Of kings and emperors -- Antarctica at last! -- High days and holidays -- The hinge of the continent -- Waiting for winter -- Darkness and light -- Midwinter -- The third quarter -- The promise of life -- Gathering light -- Freedom of the ice -- Of endings and beginnings -- Afterword : the memory of Antarctica. | |
| 520 | |a Describes the author's time working as a basecamp doctor at Antarctica's Halley research station and his fascination with the emperor penguin community that shared the icy continent with him. | ||
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